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BAGHDAD, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Around 2 million people in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City received potable water in districts with historically poor sources of drinking supplies, officials said.  

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers Friday at a mosque run by followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, killing at least 12 people, a day after Iraqi lawmakers approved a security pact with the United States.  

By By HAMZA HENDAWI -- Iraq's president is going to the country's federal court to try to stop Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from establishing tribal councils - a move that major political parties fear is aimed at bolstering the Shiite leader's stature ahead of elections next year.President...  

Iraqi Army Soldiers from 4th Company, 3rd Battalion, 42nd Brigade, 11th Division distributed meals to more than 1,000 residents in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Nov. 28, 2008. Photo by 1st Lt. Chris Young, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs. BAGHDAD — Smiling faces stretched as far as...  

BAGHDAD - A special Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin, known as "Chemical Ali", to death yesterday after convicting him of crimes against humanity while crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising in southern Iraq. Ali...  

BAGHDAD - At a press conference in Baghdad on November 20, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made statements which angered the leadership of the Kurdistan Regional Government(KRG).  

A suicide bomber shattered Friday prayers in a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, killing nine people the day after Iraq's Parliament approved a landmark pact allowing US troops to remain until 2011. The attack came as the hard-line Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared three days of mourning to...  

U.S. soldiers captured on Wednesday two suspected Iranian-backed Shiite militant group members and killed a third during raids in central Baghdad, the U. ...  

A rocket slammed into a compound near the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Saturday, killing two people in an attack that seemed likely to reflect the anger of Shiite militias over a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact.  

A SUICIDE bomber killed at least 12 worshippers outside a mosque in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, run by followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, yesterday  

A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad on Friday, police said, killing at least 12 people and injuring...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers waiting to be searched outside a mosque run by followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today, killing at least 12 people, Iraqi officials said. The blast in Musayyib ...  

[JURIST] The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal [governing statute, PDF] on Tuesday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," to death for his involvement in the repression of Shiites in southern Iraq during the regime of...  

An Iraqi court on Tuesday condemned Saddam Hussein's notorious hatchet-man "Chemical Ali" to death for war crimes and crimes against humanity over the crackdown on Shiites during their ill-fated 1991 uprising.  

US military wants more ‘Sons of Iraq’ as police BAGHDAD - The U.S. military is urging Iraq’s Shiite-led government to boost the number of Sunni volunteers — many of them ex-insurgents — into its security forces, a U.S. officer said Tuesday. ‘Chemical Ali’ sentenced to death in Iraq BAGHDAD - A...