In 2008, U.S. and Iraqi forces defeated an uprising in Sadr City, a district of Baghdad with ~2.4 million residents. Coalition forces' success in this battle helped consolidate the Government of ...

ISLAMIC State (Isis) claimed responsibility yesterday for a car bombing in a mainly Shi’ite neighbourhood of Baghdad that ended at least 63 lives and wounded up to 85 people. The explosives-laden car ...

The continuing tensions between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government in Baghdad over the contested ... of the final battle for Sadr City in mid-2008.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the horrific bomb attack targeting civilians at a market in Iraq's Sadr City. In a statement, his deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said the ...

Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shia cleric in Iraq, warned the threatening campaigns against Kurds in Baghdad and other provinces of Iraq following the Kurdistan Region’s referendum was “political ...

Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged his country Thursday to stay out of the fighting in neighbouring ... Iraq's powerful Iran-aligned Kataeb Hezbollah armed group on Monday called on ...

Baghdad – Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr urged his country Thursday to stay out of the fighting in neighbouring Syria triggered by a lightning rebel offensive launched last week.

General Michael Barbero (US Army, Retired) complained to Kurdistan24 that, “Tehran has more influence on Baghdad than Washington does.” Ostensibly, Sadr is protesting the chronic corruption of ...

"For example, of my reunion with Colonel Karcher, who took care of me in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, when my fellow NFL cheerleaders and I were stranded there for a night." The FOX Nation special ...

During Friday's tripartite meeting in Baghdad to discuss developments in Syria ... of shock defeats on regime forces and its allies in several areas and taking control of the central and strategically ...

They quickly took control of the northern city of Aleppo ... Powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Thursday called on Baghdad to prevent any Iraqi interference in the Syrian conflict.

Hartman said he got counseling after his two deployments to Iraq, one during fighting in Sadr City (a suburb of Baghdad) in 2005, and the second in Arab Jabor (also near Baghdad) in 2007.