Ayt. Sistani meets prime minister in sign of support for government's anti-IS fight

Rasa - Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has met with the country's prime minister in a sign of support for his newly-formed government and its struggle against the IS terrorist group.

News ID: 1438

Date: 20 October 2014 - 16:44

RNA - Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has met with the country's prime minister in a sign of support for his newly-formed government and its struggle against the IS terrorist group.

State TV says the meeting between the spiritual leader and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was underway Monday morning but provided no immediate details.

Ayatollah Al-Sistani lives in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers south of Baghdad, and rarely appears in public.

Al-Abadi's newly formed Cabinet is striving to push the Islamic State extremists out of the sprawling territory they have seized in recent months.

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