In this episode, we step into eastern Baghdad, where Sadr City became the pressure point of the Iraq War and a proving ground ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ambushed an Iraqi patrol in an eastern Baghdad slum Sunday, and U.S. forces joined the 90-minute battle, killing as many as eight ...

BAGHDAD, June 29 (Reuters) - Iraq will spend $100 million to rebuild the east Baghdad slum of Sadr City and create jobs for many of its two million residents after years of violence and neglect, a ...

The death toll in Sadr City has reached more than 1,000. As families flee the city, the government plans to put them up in a sports stadium. Tom Bowman updates us on what the Iraqi parliament and U.S.

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 ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 20 -- For the second day in a row, Shiite Muslim demonstrators took to the streets here Tuesday, this time demanding that U.S. officials allow ousted president Saddam Hussein to be tried ...

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 people have ...

BAGHDAD — Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand militia leader whose forces once battled U.S. troops in Iraq and were implicated in widespread atrocities against civilians, has emerged as the surprise ...

The mood in Baghdad’s eastern suburb of Sadr City is one of silence; no election campaign posters, no banners fluttering in the breeze, and no glossy images of grinning candidates. The absence of the ...

U.S. Medics Tend to Iraq’s Wounded in Sadr City With little in the way of emergency services and travel hampered by sporadic firefights, a steady trickle of Iraqis has been turning to the American ...