Topic: Sadr City

Two car bombs kill 10, wound 38 in Iraq capital

Tweet . Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad's Sadr City on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 38 in the latest attack targeting Shiite...

More car bombs in Baghdad

Four car bombs killed least 13 people and wounded 62 in Shia districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on Tuesday.. . The BBC reports eight died when...

Car Bomb Attacks Kill 9 in Baghdad

A series of car bombs exploded in Shiite areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 60, an Iraqi interior ...

The daily struggle of Iraq's widows of war

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Halima Dakhil lost her husband in the sectarian slaughter that engulfed Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 and now spends her days tearful and scared, knowing her $250 monthly wage won't pay the rent and feed five ...

Iraq Shi'ite militia splinters into hit squads, gangs

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army has spawned dozens of renegade splinter groups which frequently assassinate Iraqi officials on behalf of foreign sponsors, Sadrist and security officials say.The Mehdi Army, which fought against U.S. troops after ...

For Baghdad's poor, city garbage brings in the bread

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's leaders hope the country's still largely untapped oil wealth can one day rival Saudi Arabia and provide a decent living to its citizens after years of conflict and chaos.But for 12-year-old Abbas Mohammed and his family ...

Iraq protesters demand electricity, jobs

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Iraqi cities on Tuesday, inspired by popular protests around the Arab world, to demand job-creation programmes and better electricity supplies.The biggest turnout was in Fallujah where about 800 protesters marched through the city ...

Iraq needs billions to meet growing housing shortage

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - After another sleepless night drenched by winter rains, Nahla Kadhim spent the morning scooping water off the floor of her two-room shack in the Iraqi capital's northeastern slum of Sadr City.The makeshift hovel is made of bricks and ...
Anti-US Shiite Sadrist movement seeking big role in new Iraq government, raising worriesThe Shiite Sadrist movement was the key bloc that assured Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's re-election, and now the fiercely anti-U.S. fundamentalist group wants its cut in return: A ...

Sadr City Wall

American forces have started to build a large concrete wall that will section Sadr City , Baghdad . The construction began on April 15, 2008 with intentions to turn a part of Sadr City into a protected enclave. The United States Army claims that ...