The role of Iraq’s influential Shiite clerics is changing. Here’s how.

February 8, 2019 Marsin Alshamary THE WASHINGTON POST

Qais al-Khazali, the leader of the militant Shiite group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Baghdad on Jan. 28, 2019.

Khalid Mohammed/AP via The Washington Post