Baghdad was on virtual lockdown Friday as a tough new curfew ordered everyone off the streets of the Iraqi capital and five other cities until 5 p.m. Sunday. That restriction didn't stop someone from ...

BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City for the first time in three years, part of a revamped plan to pacify the capital. Yet the Mahdi Army ...

BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military is engaged in delicate negotiations inside Sadr City to clear the way for a gradual push in coming weeks by more American and Iraqi forces into the volatile Shiite ...

A three-mile-long, 12-foot-high concrete barrier encircles the Jamiila wholesale market in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. The market used to be the biggest in Iraq; now merchants say the wall ...

Sadr City residents have come in droves to Baghdad’s protests, driven by anger at the Iraq government’s neglect and fueled by their long history of defiance. By Alissa J. Rubin At least 14 ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Young men armed and paid by the American military took to the streets of the Iraqi capital’s Sadr City area for the first time yesterday to guard their neighborhoods, part of a new ...

According to al-Badeel al-iraqi, their sources in Sadr-City sent a message saying that the attacking forces are preparing to hit the city with opiate fentanyl non-lethal gas, the same gas the Russians ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday condemned US congressional candidate ...

A bomb killed five people and wounded 28 others Wednesday in Baghdad's Sadr City, a poor Shi'ite Muslim area of the Iraqi capital, police said.

A bomb killed five people and wounded 28 others on Wednesday in Baghdad's Sadr City, a poor Shi'ite Muslim area of the Iraqi capital, police said.<BR><BR> Police said the explosion went off near a ...