BAGHDAD (AP) — Khalil Ibrahim’s four sons are among thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric staging a sit-in outside Iraq’s parliament after storming the building last week in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Explosion in Sadr City district of Baghdad BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings An Iraqi soldier stands guard at a checkpoint in Sadr City, on May 20.

Sadr City Death Toll Hits 1000The death toll in Sadr City has reached more than 1,000. As families flee the city, the government plans to put them up in a sports stadium. Tom Bowman updates us on what ...

The death toll from Wednesday’s car-bomb attack in Baghdad’s predominantly-Shia Sadr City district -- responsibility for which has since been claimed by the Daesh terrorist group -- has risen to 56, ...

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 ...

Fresh fighting in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City puts new strains on an already fragile cease-fire ordered by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. U.S. casualties are mounting as fighting spreads.

A rocket slammed into Baghdad's city hall and another hit a downtown park Tuesday as more frightened civilians fled a Shiite militia stronghold where U.S.-led forces are locked in fierce street ...

Lt. Col. Lawrence "Barrett" Holmes, a tall, lanky commander, bundled out of his cream-colored, armor-plated Humvee in flak jacket, helmet and protective eyewear, held his M-16 rifle at the ready and ...

BAGHDAD — A shaky cease-fire appeared to take hold Tuesday in this capital’s Sadr City neighborhood, after a cleric who brokered the deal for Shiite Muslim fighters said they would honor it even after ...

Jamila market had become an abandoned dusty lot as the blasts of missiles, mortars and gunfire rattled the surrounding buildings in Baghdad’s Sadr City. That was two months ago, at the height of Prime ...