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Iraqi News
March 4, 2018
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Two citizens were injured Sunday in a bomb blast in eastern Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying. Speaking to Alghad Press news website, the source said, “An explosive charge went off near a workshop at Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, leaving two citizensÃâà...
The State Journal-Register
March 3, 2018
In 2007-08, Robb deployed with a military transition team to Iraq near Sadr City in Baghdad where he advised the Iraqi army on convoy movements, leadership and command strategies. Todd went to Afghanistan in 2008 and served at Forward Operating Base Salerno, and Robb was sent to the base in 2010. The base wasÃâà...
Task & Purpose
March 1, 2018
In 2007, news correspondent Martha Raddatz published The Long Road Home describing the events of April 4th, 2004 when 2-5 Cavalry assumed their mission in Sadr City, Iraq in the midst of a horrific ambush. Sadr City had been quiet for a year, the Shia population was waiting to see if the AmericanÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 28, 2018
Both maintain headquarters in the eponymous Sadr City, the highly impoverished and frequently attacked district of Baghdad. And both say they are fighting - politically speaking - for the same future for its three million residents, and the millions of Iraqs beyond. Salam Ali, a member of the Iraqi CommunistÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 21, 2018
The coalitions have formed for Iraq's parliamentary elections, scheduled for May. While parties and coalitions based on ethnic and sectarian identities are prevalent in the race, at the same time, formerly sectarian parties have reinvented themselves as national movements. The Sadrists, followers of ShiaÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
February 13, 2018
Iraqi weightlifter Roqaya Ahmed, 12, trains at a club in Sadr City, east of Baghdad. — AFP. Baghdad — The weightlifters on Iraq's national women's team train hard every day, both to bring home the medals and to help ease the financial burden of running a home. Jerking weights heavier than themselves atÃâà...
Rudaw
February 11, 2018
Iraqi weightlifter Khadeeja Ismal Abdullah, trains on January 18, 2018 at a club in Sadr City, east of Baghdad. Photo: Ahmed al-Rubaye | AFP. by Khalil Jalil The weightlifters on Iraq's national women's team train hard every day, both to bring home the medals and to help ease the financial burden of running a home.
ABC News
November 7, 2017
On April 4, 2004, the 2-5 battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division was just taking over responsibility for Sadr City, a large Baghdad slum with a population of 2 million. A platoon of 18 soldiers and their interpreter was returning to its base from the most routine of missions, providing security for sewage trucks,Ãâà...
BarBend (blog)
December 31, 1999
The clip was filmed at their gym in the notoriously violent and conservative Sadr City and involves interviews with the team's star -90kg athlete Huda Salim Al-Saedi, who holds multiple Iraqi records in the sport, and team coach Abbas Ahmed, who doesn't hold back as he discusses the financial hardshipsÃâà...
