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Under the agreement, the US military would not enter areas of Sadr City north of al-Quds street, but the Mahdi Army promised to stop rocket attacks on US military bases and the Green Zone. [2] [45] Just before dawn on May 20, six battalions of Iraqi soldiers entered the northern districts of Sadr City as part of Operation Salaam ("Peace" in ...
The first cause of the Spring Fighting was the rise of a conservative Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia, the Mahdi Army, in the south of the country. Muqtada al-Sadr also has great influence in the Sadr City section of Baghdad (Sadr City, which was Saddam City, was renamed after the invasion, in honor of Sadr's father, Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr).
Among the dead were 22 U.S. and 17 Iraqi soldiers as well as 331 militants and 591 civilians. 100 U.S. soldiers and more than 1,700 civilians were wounded. 549 of the civilians were killed in Sadr City [83] while another 42 were killed in different parts of Baghdad by mortars, fired from Sadr City, which missed the Green Zone. The fighting ...
The Mahdi Army (Arabic: جيش المهدي, romanized: Jaysh al-Mahdi) was an Iraqi Shia militia created by Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. [9]The Mahdi Army rose to international prominence on April 4, 2004, when it spearheaded the first major armed confrontation against the US forces in Iraq from the Shia community.
Marlboro (Sadr City) Camp Mejid [18] Al Anbar Camp: Mercury Camp Abu Ghraib: Abu Ghraib: Camp: Minden: Basra: June 2011: Transferred to Iraqi govt. Camp: C.W. Myler (Baghdad) Camp of Naval Special Warfare Squadron One during their deployment in 2004 Camp: Nakamura (Nippur) Babil: Named in honor of Army Spc. Paul T. Nakamura Camp: Nama: Baghdad ...
Some Mahdi Army fighters from Najaf went to Sadr City in Baghdad, where there had also been heavy fighting, to help the Mahdi Army in their guerrilla activities against U.S. and Iraqi forces. A final agreement between the U.S. and Muqtada al-Sadr was reached by the end of September and fighting ceased in early October.
The blast occurred in a crowded outdoor market in the predominantly Shiite district of Sadr City and wounded 85 people, officials said.
Sadr City (Arabic: مدينة الصدر, romanized: Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr), formerly known as Al-Thawra (Arabic: الثورة, romanized: aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City (Arabic: مدينة صدام, romanized: Madīnat Ṣaddām), is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.