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), …

The siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by US and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent …

2019年1月31日 · Sadr City is a dense Shiite area in eastern Baghdad whose boundaries with adjacent Sunni-dominated neighborhoods represent sectarian fault lines. At the time of the …

2025年1月14日 · The Battle of Sadr City took place fifteen months after the start of the US “surge” in Iraq, of which the Baghdad Security Plan was a key element. The United States sent five …

Sadr City was built in 1959 and unofficially named for Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, the highly-revered Shi’a cleric who was assassinated by the Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1999. …

2023年9月1日 · When you talk about heroism, dedication and the might of the American military, one battle that instantly commands respect is the Battle of Sadr City. This conflict was a …

2018年1月22日 · An ISIS bomb blast killed 76 inside Sadr City in August, 2015 and the city’s members quickly mobilized to seal its borders from another infiltration.

After supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr storm the Iraqi parliament, a Chatham House survey of residents in Baghdad’s Sadr City gives a rare insight into the actions and motivations of the …

2025年1月14日 · In 2008, a surge in violence from an Iraqi militia called the Jaysh al-Mahdi—better known to coalition forces as JAM—broke out in Baghdad. It was, in part, a …

2014年1月15日 · In late March 2008, a Shi'a uprising in Baghdad's Sadr City district challenged the authority of the Government of Iraq (GoI) at its heart. The Jaish al Mahdi (JAM) overran …