BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City for the first time in three years, part of a revamped plan to pacify the capital. Yet the Mahdi Army militia ...

BAGHDAD -- Around the corner from a five-mile line stretching toward a gas station, past election posters calling voting a religious duty, hundreds of bleary-eyed protesters threw down what goes for ...

The shell-shocked Shi’ite neighborhood of Sadr City in east Baghdad epitomizes the tragedy and terror that continue to grip Iraq five years after the fall of Saddam ...

MICHAEL Woodson, president of Artist Rescue Mission, loosely sums up the rebirth of his organization last year. "A dozen well-meaning people saying, 'Let's help some Iraqi artists!'" He shakes his ...

This episode was a blow to the American effort to push the Iraqis into the lead in the struggle to wrest control of parts of Sadr City from the Mahdi Army militia and what Americans and Iraqis say are ...

Entire sections of Baghdad's vast Sadr City district have been left nearly abandoned by civilians fleeing a U.S.-led showdown with Shiite militias and seeking aid after facing shortages of food and ...

The mood in Baghdad’s eastern suburb of Sadr City is one of silence; no election campaign posters, no banners fluttering in the breeze, and no glossy images of grinning candidates. The absence of the ...

Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr staged a big march in Baghdad on Friday to voice their opposition to any long-term military agreement between Iraq and the United States. NPR's Lourdes ...

Sadr City residents have come in droves to Baghdad’s protests, driven by anger at the Iraq government’s neglect and fueled by their long history of defiance. By Alissa J. Rubin At least 14 people have ...