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

The shell-shocked Shi’ite neighborhood of Sadr City in east Baghdad epitomizes the tragedy and terror that continue to grip Iraq five years after the fall of Saddam ...

BAGHDAD -- Around the corner from a five-mile line stretching toward a gas station, past election posters calling voting a religious duty, hundreds of bleary-eyed protesters threw down what goes for ...

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 militia ...

BAGHDAD – A senior aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was assassinated Friday in the holy city of Najaf, officials said. Authorities immediately announced a citywide curfew and security ...

MICHAEL Woodson, president of Artist Rescue Mission, loosely sums up the rebirth of his organization last year. "A dozen well-meaning people saying, 'Let's help some Iraqi artists!'" He shakes his ...

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 ...

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 ...