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Iraqi army patrols Sadr City

AP — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:55:39 +0000

Iraqi troops are deployed in large numbers in the Baghdad district of Sadr City, where Shiite militiamen used to control the streets.Iraqi soldiers are on top of buildings around the office of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers hold...

Joint Chiefs chairman: Security gains holding

AP — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:54:42 +0000

Iraq appears on track to establishing sustainable security _ a key step toward withdrawing U.S. troops _ the top U.S. military officer said Monday after visiting the newly quiet Sadr City section of the capital.Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the...

Blast in Baghdad's Sadr City kills 4 Americans

AP — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:43:32 +0000

A bomb struck a district council building Tuesday in Baghdad’s Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, killing at least 10 people, including four Americans _ two soldiers and two government employees, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.U.S. troops...

Police say at least 11 killed by gunfire in Baghdad

AP — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:50:30 +0000

At least 11 people were killed Wednesday when gunfire broke out after a roadside bombing in a Shiite militia stronghold in eastern Baghdad near Sadr City, scene of a major military clampdown, Iraqi police said.Sadr City itself remained calm, a day...

Iraqi troops enter Shiite stronghold of Sadr City

AP — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:02:13 +0000

An Iraqi military spokesman says Iraqi troops have moved into Baghdad’s Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City to seize control.Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi says the troops are entering Sadr City as part of a truce reached last week with...

Iraqi troops enter capital's Shiite stronghold

AP — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:59:44 +0000

Wall fails to bring peace to Sadr City

Arpita Mukherjee — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:05:22 +0000

Neither can constructing a wall divide the citizens of a country nor can it bring peace to the region. The Americans however has oversimplified the idiom that out of sight is out of mind and have thought that the only solution that lay in...

Officials: Clashes in Iraq's Sadr City kill 11

AP — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:13:27 +0000

Iraqi hospital officials say clashes in Sadr City have killed 11 men and wounded 19 others.The clashes come even though Iraq’s main Shiite political bloc and supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have signed a fragile cease-fire covering the...

Officials: Clashes in Iraq's Sadr City, 11 killed

AP — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:08:07 +0000

Shiite bloc says Sadr City cease-fire signed with Sadrists

AP — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:15:15 +0000

A senior Shiite lawmaker says a Sadr City cease-fire has been signed in an effort to stop fighting.The deal was officially signed Monday between five representatives of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and four member of the main Shiite...