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.

Abbas seems friendly enough and laughs easily. As his car breezes through Iraqi army checkpoints at the entrance to Baghdad’s notorious and sprawling Sadr City slum, he talks about killing Sunnis. “We ...

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BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 -- Over the past 18 months, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has long fought for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, has tried to improve his movement's image and reform his ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Fighting erupted late Sunday in a Shiite militia stronghold of Baghdad, and a suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners at a funeral in Saddam Hussein's hometown, killing 10 ...

The U.S. military says troops arrested 16 militiamen it describes as rogue elements of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army. The raid took place in Sadr City, the sprawling Baghdad slum.

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 — With not a Shiite fighter in sight, shoppers crowded through markets and cars packed the streets in Baghdad’s Sadr City yesterday — a positive early sign for Iraqi forces in their bid to ...

Acouple weeks ago, during my last full day in Baghdad, terrorists loyal to the Islamic State detonated two bombs in Sadr City — the predominantly Shi‘ite slum in northeastern Baghdad — killing five.

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 ...