Nearly a year after Saddam Hussein's capture, Iraq faced another defining moment as fierce fighting erupted in the holy city ...

“We commend all those who honor al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr’s ceasefire pledge… Significant progress has been made in the fight for a secure and stable Iraq, but dangerous criminal elements still ...

Speaking at a press conference in the police headquarters on Tuesday, General Abdul Karim Khalaf said “reports being circulated in the city which assert that our forces will wage attacks on some ...

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A U.S. Marine Corps M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank (MBT), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), in convoy along the streets of An Najaf, An Najaf Province, Iraq, on Aug.

Breakdown of weapons found in Sadr City from May 20 to June 2. Click to view. The US military continues to target the Mahdi Army in Baghdad and the South as the Iraqi Army works to destroy Mahdi Army ...

As General David Petraeus prepares this week's testimony to Congress, the Green Zone is under deadly rocket attack. But the Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has offered to disband his Mahdi Army if the ...

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Capt. Erik Peterson knows fighters from the Mahdi Army militia of Moqtada al-Sadr are all around, even though he can’t see them. Peterson and his men usually catch only glimpses of the Mahdi Army ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military's drive to train and equip Iraq's security forces has unwittingly strengthened anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has ...

BAGHDAD -- A Muslim imam dropped his cloak to the sidewalk. It was a signal for the gunmen to move. They surrounded the top Iraqi security official in a north Baghdad district. Iraqi military vehicles ...

The soldiers joke darkly when they talk about what was left of Iskandariyah’s mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so ...