A resident surveys damage in Sadr City, Baghdad, in an undated photograph. The predominantly Shiite Muslim slum has been beseiged by clashes between U.S. and Iraqi forces and militia members loyal to ...

In the weeks following the high profile attack on Basra by the Iraqi army and its high profile failure something of a low-level war has been going on across Iraq much behind the scenes of the ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a day after ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Much of the giant square where followers of Moqtada al-Sadr gather in their thousands on Fridays to pray is now taken up by an Iraqi army base, surrounded by concrete blast walls ...

BAGHDAD -- Shiite groups brokered a reported cease-fire yesterday with militants fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City. Meanwhile, the country's army launched an offensive in Mosul ...

Tanks rumbled through Sadr City’s narrow alleys like unleashed lions in a crowded arena, each turret ready to strike at hidden enemies. Urban warfare, a common form of irregular warfare (IW), drags ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. and Iraqi troops poured into Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Sunday, encountering no resistance in the one-time Sadr City combat zones but testing the Shiites' ...