Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: ????? ??????, romanized: Muqtada ?-?adr; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi Shia cleric, politician and militia leader.
He is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the leader of Saraya al-Salam, a Shia militia that is a reformation of the previous militia he led during the American occupation of Iraq, the Mahdi Army.
There were reports on 7 December 2019 of an armed drone attack on Sadr.Muqtada al-Sadr is one of the most influential religious and popular figures in Iraq, despite not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.