January 6, 2011
Anti-U.S. Cleric Back in Iraq
Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shiite cleric and outspoken opponent of
U.S. Iraq policy (NYT), returned home to Iraq after three years of voluntary exile in Iran.Last month, Sadr's party struck a deal to join the new Iraqi government with thirty-nine seats in parliament.
Iraq's coalition government is a promising resolution to nine months of political wrangling after national elections, says expert Joost Hiltermann, but questions loom about how effective the power-sharing agreement will be.
This CFR interactive timeline details the timeline of events since the U.S.
invasion of Iraq in 2003. 