Sadr City

Baghdad, Dec 24 (DPA) Five people were killed and 22 others wounded by an explosion Thursday in Sadr City in the east of Baghdad, security officials said. The bomb went off during a funerary gathering in the impoverished, predominately Shia district of the Iraqi capital, the Voices of Iraq news agency reported. At least 27 people were [...]  

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say a bomb exploded at a funeral in a Shiite neighborhood of the capital, killing at least nine people and wounding 33 others. Police and hospital officials say the bomb exploded inside a funeral tent in Baghdad's Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. The killings come as Shiites from around the...  

Over 20 people were killed and some 100 injured in separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Thursday during the Shiite religious festival of Ashura, local media reported. One of the bombs went off at a funeral in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, killing about 10 and leaving more than 30 wounded. Another two bombs hit Shiite pilgrims in Hilla, the capital of Babil province, south of Baghdad where over 10 people died and more than 70 were injured. The...  

I haven’t done an Iraq post in a while. Many of the Iraqi blogs I read have slowed down, but with the elections coming up, a few of them have picked up a little. In particular, IraqPundit is going around getting a bunch of different viewpoints on the state of the country and [...]  

BAGHDAD—A bomb exploded at a school in Baghdad’s Shiite district of Sadr City today, killing five people, including four students, Iraqi officials said. The bombing took place at about 1 p.m. in an area where large attacks have been infrequent because it is encircled by U.S. and Iraqi security forces and has its own neighborhood security.  

BAGHDAD (AP) – An explosion outside an elementary school in a Shiite district of Baghdad killed at least eight people Monday, as Iraqi officials considered delaying national elections until at least February. The blast occurred in the Shiite district of Sadr City, where large-scale attacks have been infrequent because of tight security by U.S. and Iraqi forces as a well as the neighborhood's own guards. Police and witnesses gave conflicting...  

A BOMB in a school in the Baghdad Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City killed five people and wounded 34 today, the majority of them children returning to class after a Muslim holiday, security and health officials said.  

BAGHDAD (AP) - An Iraqi police official says a bomb exploded inside a school in Baghdad and at least four students are dead. The official says the blast occurred Monday in the Shiite district of Sadr City. He said at least 10 people are injured. No ...  

BAGHDAD, Dec 11 — Iraq could challenge Russia’s number two ... But no successful bids were made for more dangerous fields, including East Baghdad, which lies in part under the capital’s Sadr City slum and would be difficult to protect from ...  

BAGHDAD - Seven children were killed and 42 wounded in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad Monday when a bomb exploded outside a school, police said. The explosion occurred in Baghdad's Sadr City slum as primary school pupils aged between 6 and 12 were leaving  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four students aged between 13 and 15 were killed and 18 people were wounded in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Monday when a bomb planted in a schoolyard exploded, police said. The death toll from the explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City  

Seven children have been killed after a bomb exploded outside a school in Baghdad. The explosion occurred in the Sadr City slum as primary school pupils aged between six and 12 were leaving at the end of the school day. Some 42 children were wounded in  

Seven children were killed and 42 wounded in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad Monday when a bomb exploded outside a school, police said. The explosion occurred in Baghdad's Sadr City slum as primary school pupils aged between 6 and 12 were leaving at the  

BAGHDAD — An explosion near a school in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday wounded scores of children, while militants elsewhere continued to attack Iraqs security forces in a spate of bombings, shootings and poisonings. Notes from