... more. The numbers are based on AP reporting and are likely a minimum. Followers of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose movement is gearing up to contest national elections on Jan. 30, blamed the Americans for the recent bombings ...

... released more than 3,000 detainees and handed over 750 more to Iraqi authorities. Detainees loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have begun a hunger strike to protest alleged abuse in Iraqi prisons, according to the spokesman of the Sadrist ...

... electric sticks. In one of these investigation sessions, my left shoulder was dislocated." Politicians loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand anti-American Shiite cleric, also are pressuring the government on the issue. Al-Sadr's followers ...

... Iraq coincides with an overall decline in violence largely attributed to a cease-fire by anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and a Sunni decision to join forces with the Americans against al-Qaida in Iraq. Julian said that troops in Afghanistan ...

... American troops, the help of Sunni Arab irregulars on the U.S. payroll, and a cease-fire by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army. Also Monday, a train struck a minivan at an intersection near the town of Hillah, about 60 ...

... has been attributed to a self-imposed freeze on activities by the Mahdi Army the militia of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Another important change was the quick growth of mostly Sunni anti-al-Qaida in Iraq groups, or "awakening ...

BAGHDAD Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Sunday that he was pulling his fighters off the ... including the Mahdi Army that is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. But al-Maliki also acknowledged Saturday that ...

... s left of the insurgency is just trying to hang on." Shiite militias, notably the Mahdi Army of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, have lost their power bases in Baghdad, Basra and other major cities. An important step was the routing of Shiite ...

... said. In the Sadr City section of eastern Baghdad, more than 500 followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held a rally Thursday evening to denounce the Rice visit and the proposed security arrangement. Marchers carried ...

... six-month-old security crackdown, mostly focused against fighters linked to al-Qaida in Iraq. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed to pull his Mahdi Army fighters off the streets as the U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown began on Feb. 12 ...