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“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 ...

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.

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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 ...

After a summer and fall in which the press was filled with accounts of Muqtada al Sadr’s power in Iraqi politics, Sadr and his Mahdi Army have essentially dropped off the radar. Other than brief ...

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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BAGHDAD — Loyalists within Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia network call it the “martyrs’ list,” and it’s long and growing: at least three dozen senior members killed in slayings or fighting ...