Sadr City

BAGHDAD, Oct. 10, 2008 – Schools are now in session in the Sadr City district here, an area that six months ago was the scene of some of the war’s fiercest fighting. Students from the Jawalala School in the Jamilla neighborhood of Baghdad’s Sadr City district show off their newly issued backpacks...  

Highly secret hi-tech tactics and technology helped defeat Muqtada al-Sadr's militia fighters in the battle for Sadr City. Lesley Stahl reports for 60 Minutes , this Sunday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.  

Thousands of citizens from Al Sadr City marched in the funerals of MP Saleh Al Ugaili who was killed due to sustained wounds as his convoy was targeted by a roadside bomb explosion in Al Habiba region related to Al Sadr City. Mourners held US and Iraqi Forces responsibility for the assassination...  

The U.S. military says clashes have occurred overnight in the Shiite district of Sadr City and one American soldier has been wounded.  

Saleh al-Auqaeili was considered a moderate within Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement  

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr blamed the United States on Friday for the assassination of a lawmaker who belonged to the cleric's parliamentary bloc, killed a day earlier in a bomb attack.  

Iraq: Violent clashes in Sadr City after Sadrist MP's funeral (AKI) - Violent clashes took place on Friday between militiamen loyal to radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi security forces after a slain Sadrist MP's funeral, the Al-Arabiya satellite TV channel reported.Saleh al...  

A member of parliament from anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr's bloc was killed by a bomb in Baghdad on Thursday, in an attack that some feared may herald a wave of assassinations before provincial elections.  

BAGHDAD: A roadside bomb killed a prominent member of Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement on Thursday, raising fears of new internal Shiite bloodshed ahead of regional elections expected in January.  

A member of parliament from anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr's bloc was killed by a bomb in Baghdad Thursday, in an attack that some feared may herald a wave of assassinations before provincial elections.  

NAJAF, (Reuters) - Hundreds of supporters of Iraq's anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered on Friday to bury a Sadrist lawmaker, assassinated a day earlier in a bomb attack. In the Baghdad  

A member of parliament from anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr's bloc died after a bomb blast struck his car in Baghdad on Thursday, fellow politicians and a health ministry official said.  

AFP - A Shiite radical MP escaped with injuries when his car was hit by a roadside bomb in the movement's Baghdad's bastion of Sadr City on Thursday, his spokesman and security officials said.  

A roadside bomb seriously wounded a member of parliament from anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr's bloc in Baghdad on Thursday, one of his bodyguards said.  

Heavy fighting and a loud explosion have been reported in Sadr City Thursday night, apparently between militiamen and US-Iraqi forces.