Topic: Moqtada Sadr

BAGHDAD, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- An Iraqi lawmaker with the Sadrist Movement Thursday said attacks on Sadr loyalists by American forces were due to the group's anti-occupation stance.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The non-profit International Medical Corps joined forces with logistics firm Agility to distribute massive shipments of medical supplies in central Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The improved freedom and security in Iraq do not extend to the homosexual population, who are subject to a sexual cleansing campaign, evidence shows.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr announced Tuesday he will not run for political office under his own party, opting instead for an independent slate.

The U.S. elections are a top feature in many Iraqi newspapers. The American public paid little attention to Barack Obama naming Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate, they say.

Many Iraqis say that the Sons of Iraq, a paramilitary force trained, funded, armed and supported by U.S. forces, is a carefully planned American project. Many others, however, believe the opposite.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Armed Forces and their Iraqi allies have succeeded in severely limiting the ability of al-Qaida and other insurgent forces in Baghdad to carry out large-scale vehicle-borne improvised explosive device terror attacks on Iraqi civilians and other targets, U.S. officers in the city have told United Press International.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Continuing sweeps and targeted raids by U.S. and Iraqi forces for extremists' weaponry in northeast Baghdad are steadily chipping away at enemy munitions stores and hobbling attack capabilities, U.S. military officials say.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Baghdad has no plans to protect the Sunni force, Sons of Iraq, and shuns any decision to merge the bulk of the force into the Iraqi army, officials said.

BAGHDAD, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr has declared an indefinite cease-fire, ordering the 60,000 members of his Mehdi Army militia to halt violence.