Moqtada_al-Sadr - Protesters demonstrate in Sadr City, Iraq

Protesters demonstrate in Sadr City, Iraq

Demonstrators display a poster of anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a protest march after Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City Iraq on August 8, 2008. (UPI Photo/Ali Jasim)


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Petraeus: Iraq violence at turning point
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said Thursday the Iraqi government's willingness to take on a Shiite militia was a turning point in the conflict.
BAGHDAD, May 14 (UPI) -- Despite a recently signed truce between Shiite militant groups, fighting Wednesday claimed at least five victims in Baghdad's Sadr City area.
BAGHDAD, May 1 (UPI) -- Iraqi reconstruction projects progressed and displaced people returned home despite violence from criminal gangs in Sadr City, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
BAGHDAD, April 21 (UPI) -- Moqtada al-Sadr Monday called on the Iraqi government to put a stop to visits from "the terrorist occupier" following a visit by the U.S. secretary of state.
WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- Fighting between Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias could be a sign of the government's ability to take on its own problems, the U.S. military said.
In its editorial "Moqtada has awakened," Kitabat newspaper addressed Moqtada Sadr's realization that his Mahdi Army was deepening sectarian divisions.
BASRA, Iraq, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- About 40 people were killed Friday in fighting between a radical Shiite fringe group and Iraqi forces as the Shiite Muslim festival of Ashura began.
BAGHDAD, Iran, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The void in the Iraqi Shiite Mehdi militia created by arrests in Baghdad is being filled by gun-toting teenagers, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
In an editorial titled "U.S. policy in Iraq could aid Iran," Shabab Al Iraq newspaper on Monday quoted the International Crisis Group as saying President Bush's support to the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council could promote disputes among Shiites factions, giving Iran a bigger political role in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Many Shiites in Baghdad now oppose the Mahdi Army, seeing its members as young criminals, The New York Times reported Friday.
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