MICHAEL Woodson, president of Artist Rescue Mission, loosely sums up the rebirth of his organization last year. "A dozen well-meaning people saying, 'Let's help some Iraqi artists!'" He shakes his ...

BAGHDAD, June 29 (Reuters) - Iraq will spend $100 million to rebuild the east Baghdad slum of Sadr City and create jobs for many of its two million residents after years of violence and neglect, a ...

The death toll in Sadr City has reached more than 1,000. As families flee the city, the government plans to put them up in a sports stadium. Tom Bowman updates us on what the Iraqi parliament and U.S.

Sadr City residents have come in droves to Baghdad’s protests, driven by anger at the Iraq government’s neglect and fueled by their long history of defiance. By Alissa J. Rubin At least 14 people have ...

(Adds quote from Western diplomat in Tehran) By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD, May 12 (Reuters) - Iran played a prominent role in a deal struck by Iraqi Shi'ite factions to end seven weeks of fighting in the ...

In this episode, we step into eastern Baghdad, where Sadr City became the pressure point of the Iraq War and a proving ground ...

Shiite militants loyal to the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized control of the southern Iraqi city of Amarah for a short time this morning. Michele Norris talks with Peter Harling, senior analyst at the ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ambushed an Iraqi patrol in an eastern Baghdad slum Sunday, and U.S. forces joined the 90-minute battle, killing as many as eight ...

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Iraqis marked the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad—and of their liberation from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny—in eerie silence and fear. Though April 9 was officially a national holiday, Baghdad’s ...

Militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr aired his sternest threat yet to the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, vowing “open war” unless the U.S.-backed military assault on his followers ends.

U.S. Medics Tend to Iraq’s Wounded in Sadr City With little in the way of emergency services and travel hampered by sporadic firefights, a steady trickle of Iraqis has been turning to the American ...