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.

BAGHDAD — After 10 weeks of fierce combat, an odd sense of normality has returned to this capital’s most battle-scarred neighborhood. The break in running clashes between U.S. troops and Shiite Muslim ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – For thousands of U.S. personnel who fought in the Iraq War, Baghdad’s destitute Sadr City holds a pivotal place in their memories. Not only the years spent dodging ceaseless bullets, ...

Map of Fillmore Street Utility Improvements in Lynchburg. Various roads to be impacted for Fillmore Street Utility Improvements Project in Lynchburg Read full article: Various roads to be impacted for ...

BAGHDAD — Where are the killers coming from? That was the question U.S. officers pondered at a cramped command post called Apache. They examined a map showing where scores of corpses had turned up in ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The 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 Iraqi parliament and U.S.

S A D R   C I T Y, Iraq, June 21, 2004 -- Nine days before the U.S.-Iraq handover, many parts of Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood are not under the control of American troops or Iraqi police, but ...

Iraqi soldiers for the first time warned residents in the embattled Sadr City district to leave their houses Thursday, signaling a new push by the U.S.-backed forces against Shiite extremists who have ...

BAGHDAD — A top aide to Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that the influential Shiite cleric had reached an agreement with lawmakers aligned with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to end fighting in the Sadr ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAGHDAD (AP) — Khalil Ibrahim’s four sons ...