Article: IRAQ - May 20 - Operation In Sadr City Is An Iraqi Success, So Far.

Article: IRAQ - Apr 30 - 28 Iraqis killed in fierce fighting in Sadr City.(Brief article)
APS Diplomat Recorder;  May 3, 2008 ;     255 words ......Iraq last month against Shi'ite militias, primarily the...and 2,100 injured in Sadr City alone since fighting...Al Sadr. Residents of Sadr City said death toll was at...fighters, he said. But Sadr City residents gave a very...

Article: IRAQ - Oct 9 - Bomb Kills Senior Shi'ite Lawmaker.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  October 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......prominent member of the Shi'ite bloc. The explosion...near Baghdad's main Shi'ite district of Sadr City, according to one...military blamed Shi'ite extremists for the...within a section of Sadr City that is considered...them to justice . Sadr ...

Article: IRAQ - June 4 - Lethal Truck Explosion Hits Shi'ite District Of Baghdad.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  June 7, 2008 ;     454 words ......is a predominantly Shi'ite district near Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad...rockets were of the type Shi'ite militias based in Sadr City fire at Baghdad's...quell an uprising in Sadr City, rogue elements in the Shi'ite Mahdi army militia...

Article: IRAQ - Nov 23 - Suicide Attacks On Baghdad Shi'ite Kill 160.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  November 18, 2006 ;     528 words ......Baghdad slum of Sadr City. According to police...ministers from his Shi'ite-dominated government...of Health, like Sadr City a base for the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia...theologian Muqtada al-Sadr. The assault on...at the radical Shi'ite Sadrist ...

Article: Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 18 - Iraq & Sadr Vs Hakim.
APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map;  June 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Iraq's Ja'fari Shi'ite community. The...gradually from Iran's Shi'ite theocracy. In...parts of Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City are concerned...Street close to Sadr City , where Sadr's...a citizen of Sadr City , as saying...than a ...

Article: The Shi'ite Zarqawi: notorious death squad leader Abu Deraa embodies Iraq's relentless slide into sectarian civil war as militias seize control of the streets.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)
The Middle East;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......struggle taking place between Shi'ite militias in Iraq as the...combat aircraft, sealed off Sadr City, the labyrinthine Shi'ite quarter in eastern Baghdad...in an earlier sweep of Sadr City, the sprawling slum stronghold of firebrand Shi'ite cleric Muqtada ...

Article: IRAQ - Aug 8 - Sadr City Raids Kill 32 Militants 'Smuggling In Arms From Iran'.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  August 11, 2007 ;     454 words ......raids and air strikes on Baghdad's Sadr City, killing 32 militants suspected of...accuses Iran of providing support to Shi'ite militia networks in Iraq, including...Baghdad in July were carried out by Shi'ite militants, a US military spokesman...according to the Associated Press. ...

Article: Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 12 - Iraq Sunnis Fear Ethnic Cleansing:.
APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map;  December 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......systematic cleansing of the Sunni community by Shi'ite militias. He said some 3,000 Iraqis were...approved an American-backed coalition of Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties which...extremists, particularly the powerful Shi'ite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. Since...

Article: IRAQ - Iraqi Shi'ite Unrest.
APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map;  August 7, 2006 ;     681 words ...Radical Shi'ite militants led by Muqtada al-Sadr...held in parts of the predominantly Shi'ite south of Iraq. Sadr is close to...destroying Iraq's death squads, Sunni and Shi'ite alike, which have fomented the sectarian...Sunni Arabs, although officials in Sadr's ...

Article: Poverty, militia define Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City
AP Worldstream;  April 9, 2008 ;     488 words ...Baghdad's Sadr City district is the latest frontline in...the U.S.-controlled Green Zone from Sadr City, a stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-Americ...week, has added to the suffering of Sadr City's people, many of whom migrated there...

Article: Aid groups: Humanitarian woes grow in Baghdad's Sadr City
AP Online;  May 7, 2008 ;     659 words ...Entire sections of Baghdad's embattled Sadr City district have been left nearly abandoned...accounts by civilians pouring out of the Sadr City area as clashes intensify. U.S. forces...to cripple Shiite militia influence in Sadr City, a slum of 2.5 million people that serves...

Article: LEBANON - Dec 5 - 'Shi'ite Blood Is Boiling', Say Lebanon Protestors.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  December 9, 2006 ;     440 words ......increasingly stretched as thousands of Shi'ite demonstrators attend the funeral of the...for a second night in clashes between Shi'ite demonstrators and Sunni government supporters...backgrounds, with Lebanon's main groups - Shi'ite, Sunni and Maronite Christians - having...

Article: Shiite Alliance calls on Shiite extremists to lay down arms, Sadr City wall near completion
AP Worldstream;  May 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......ways to disarm extremists in Baghdad's Sadr City in an effort to stop intense fighting...operation has forced extremists deeper into Sadr City's alleys and streets that are home to...that has killed hundreds of people in Sadr City since last March, a committee from parliament...

Article: Learning to live together: the winds of change that are sweeping through the region bring with them testing--and, for some, frightening--times in which the old orders will be challenged. Nicholas Blanford reports from Kuwait on growing Shi'ite influences and how the Sunnis are accommodating change.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)
The Middle East;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......representative in Kuwait of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's pre-eminent Shi'ite cleric. Indeed, other Shi'ite communities in the Gulf are becoming increasingly emboldened. The Shi'ite-led opposition in Bahrain at the end of March staged a massive rally...