In the face of a general strike called by Shiite militants in Baghdad's northeastern Sadr City district, home to 2.5 million people, US troops ended their week-long siege of the district on October 31 ...

NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 25 -- More than 1,000 Shiite Muslim demonstrators clashed Wednesday night with supporters of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr in this southern Iraqi city, leaving at least ...

BAGHDAD, May 20 -- Thousands of Iraqi soldiers entered the volatile Sadr City district of eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, meeting virtually no resistance from Shiite militiamen who in recent weeks have ...

In the weeks following the high profile attack on Basra by the Iraqi army and its high profile failure something of a low-level war has been going on across Iraq much behind the scenes of the ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Much of the giant square where followers of Moqtada al-Sadr gather in their thousands on Fridays to pray is now taken up by an Iraqi army base, surrounded by concrete blast walls ...