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Sadr City ( - Madinat aṣ-Ṣadr) is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim and later unofficially renamed Sadr City after deceased Shia leader Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said.
Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City was crowded with shoppers when the bombs exploded at around 7:00 a.m. At least 37 people were wounded in the blasts, officials said.A hospital official confirmed the casualty toll.Every Friday, thousands of Iraqis converge on pet markets to shop and spend some relaxing family time during the Muslim weekend. The markets are one of the favorite targets for militants who seek to inflict large numbers of causalities.In the Shiite neighborhood of Khazimiyah in northern Baghdad, gunmen killed an Iraqi police captain, his wife, two daughters and son at the family's home, officials said.All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.Violence has ebbed in Iraq, but insurgents carry out fr...The Iraq war officially ended Thursday without a stray shot fired -- just with a simple ceremony at the Baghdad airport.It was a far cry from my previous visits to t...
BAGHDAD -- A wave of bombings targeting Shiites in Iraq killed 72 people on Thursday, deepening sectarian tensions that exploded just after the last American troops ...
Graphic Video: Militants target restaurant in predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City
BAGHDAD -- After more than eight years in Iraq , the departing American military's legacy includes a fledgling democracy, bitter memories of war, and for the nation'...
BAGHDAD -- Five American soldiers died Monday when a barrage of rockets slammed into a base in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad -- the largest, single-day loss of li...
Two explosions in a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others Thursday night, Iraqi officials said.The blasts in the Sadr ...
A powerful anti-American Shiite cleric in Iraq with thousands of loyal followers threatened on Sunday that U.S. forces who stay past the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline ...
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The U.S. government rebuilds in Sadr City , one of Baghdad's toughest corners
A bomb exploded at a Baghdad school in theShiite district of Sadr City , killing at least nine people, including at least four students. At least 41 others were woun...
BAGHDAD (AP) — As the U.S. draws down in Iraq , two Associated Press Television News cameramen, one Sunni and one Shiite, talk about what it has been like to live th...
The Shiite Sadrist movement was the key bloc that assured Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's re-election, and now the fiercely anti-U.S. fundamentalist group wants its...
BAGHDAD (AP) — A late night car bomb tore through a cafe in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood killing nine people in what many fear marks another attempt by insurgent...
BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb in a parked car ripped through a Sadr City neighborhood Wednesday evening, killing seven young people who had gathered at a nearby cafe to drin...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials: 7 killed when parked car explodes near Sadr City cafe.
U.S. soldiers and local Iraqis share growing frustration: Where is the Iraqi central government?
Iran is promoting a conservative cleric close to its supreme leader as a possible successor for the aging spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites, a move that would give ...
BAGHDAD -- The United Nations mission in Iraq said it took custody late Saturday of a man who was described as a U.S. citizen, who had been held by an Iraqi militia ...
A wave of car bombings hit the Iraq capital on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 70 as violence surges in the country amid an escalating political cr...
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