... On Saturday, American commanders turned over control of a key base on the edge of Baghdad's main Shiite district of Sadr City. The sprawling slum was a militia stronghold that saw fierce clashes until a cease-fire following a U.S.-backed ...

... least 104 people, including one on June 24 in Baghdad's Sadr City that killed 78 civilians and injured another 143 one of ... Sadrist protesters took to the streets in Baghdad's Sadr City district and other cities after Friday prayers, burning ...

... another was shot in Little Rock after a Muslim extremist saw them in uniform. Little Rock. Not Mosul. Not Basra. Not Sadr City. - Advertisement - Little Rock. Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway had recently finished basic training. He was helping ...

... create jobs and projects as a way to keep different political groups happy, such as the money it threw into Baghdad's Sadr City district last summer to ease Shiite tensions there. That will become harder now that revenue expectations have fallen ...

... before dawn Monday. Also Sunday, a bomb hidden in a garbage pile killed one person and injured 18 others in Baghdad's Sadr City district. In the northern city of Mosul, one civilian and one police officer were killed in two separate attacks on ...

... fighting the government. - Advertisement - Followers handed out sweets in Baghdad's main Mahdi Army militia stronghold of Sadr City. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh called the statement "positive and responsible." But he also warned in a telephone ...

... the northern city of Mosul and the Sadr City section of Baghdad ending in May ... countries after being pushed out of Sadr City, return to fight again. He predicts ... is coming. "I wouldn't give up Sadr City like that, and I don't think they ...

... power bases in Baghdad, Basra and other major cities. An important step was the routing of Shiite extremists in the Sadr City slums of eastern Baghdad this spring now a quiet though not fully secure district. Al-Sadr and top lieutenants are ...

... meant to push al-Maliki so he would take the draft agreement to Iraqis for approval, U.S. officials 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 ...

... brigade, Spc. Kenneth A. Melton, 30, of Batesville, died on patrol the next day when a roadside bomb detonated near Sadr City. "All I've been hearing is, 'Bring our guys home,"' Mrs. Ryken said. "It's like an open wound that just ...