Meanings of shiite cleric in English

They were too late: Locals reported that militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr had nabbed the drone.

On Friday, Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged authorities to be ready to stem any outbreak.

The repositioning reflects an effort by the anti-American Shiite cleric to regain grass-roots support and weed out some extremists.

Terrorists have detonated a bomb outside the house of one of the most important Muslim Shiite clerics in Iraq killing three guards.

The former dictator denied his involvement in the attack that killed over 100 people, including the Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.

Most worrying for the prime minister is that, after years of strain, Iraq's most senior Shiite clerics are starting to speak out against him.

The two countries severed diplomatic relations in January after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric and angry Iranian crowds overran Saudi diplomatic missions.

Khazaali was an aide to Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr and led his own faction of fighters, who broke away from Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.