Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in worsening conflict

5/16/2013 2:10 PM BAGHDAD/ Aswat al-Iraq: Security sources at the Interior Ministry announced today that 5 persons were killed and 16 more wounded in Sadr City explosion. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that a bombed car exploded in a garage new a ...

Tomas Young's life nearly ended nine years ago when he was riding in the back of a water truck in Baghdad's Sadr City. Two rounds from a sniper's AK-47 hit him; the first severed his spinal cord and the second shattered his left knee. Modern-day ...

In Sadr City, a shi'ite neighbourhood in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, eight women from Iraq's first female weightlifting team train hard to bring back medals for their country. The team of female weightlifters are set to represent Iraq in the Asian ...

Army Photo / Spc. Joshua E. Powell U.S. troops man a checkpoint in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, 2008. Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I started my very first job as a combat linguist for the coalition forces in Iraq, in support of ...

A car bomb exploded Thursday in an outdoor market in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, killing three people, police said. Nine others were wounded in this explosion, according to authorities. Bombings a day earlier in Kirkuk and Baghdad left ...

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pray during Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad. Elsewhere, a bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshipers as they were emerging from Friday ...

16 de mayo de 2013, 15:31Baghdad, May 16 (Prensa Latina) A series of explosions killed 11 people today in Sadr city, east the capital, after 35 people died on Wednesday. Sources of the Ministry of the Interior reported to car bombs exploded almost ...

An electoral employee begins sorting out ballots at a polling station on April 20, 2013 in Baghdad's Sadr City district. Iraqi election officials were to begin counting votes on Sunday from the country's first elections since US troops departed, ...

An Iraqi woman casts a ballot at a polling station during provincial elections on April 20, 2013 in Baghdad's Sadr City district. (Photo: AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE) Iraq has closed its border crossings as people headed to vote in the country's first ...