Four people were killed in clashes between rival Shiite militias in the southern Iraqi city of Basra overnight and this morning, local security officials said.
It is the latest violence to hit the country in a political crisis between followers of powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and parties and paramilitary groups close to Iran.
Security officials said the clashes took place in the center of Basra, which is Iraq’s main oil-producing hub. Two of the people killed were members of Sadr’s Peace Brigades militia, they said.
Violence flared in Iraq this week as armed supporters of Sadr clashed with security forces and Iran-aligned gunmen in Baghdad in the fiercest street fighting the capital has seen in years.
An immovable political stalemate between the two rival Shiite camps has left Iraq without a government since elections in October. It has also deepened dysfunction and instability as Iraqis try to move forward after decades of war, sanctions, civil strife and endemic corruption.
SOURCE: APE-ME
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