Sarah Benhaida

Sarah Benhaida is a freelance journalist whose globe-spanning reporting has been seen in Yahoo Singapore, Business Insider, New Zealand Herald, AlterNet, Military.com, Yahoo, MSN, The Times South Africa, The Star (South Africa), France 24, La Presse and more.

Iraq

Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Sarah Benhaida

Baghdad (AFP) – An alliance spearheaded by nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose fighters once battled the United States, led Monday in surprise preliminary results from Iraq’s first poll since the defeat of the Islamic State group. In a further political upset, a rival bloc of pro-Iranian former fighters appeared to be coming in second, squeezing […]