Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID, run back to their vehicles through smoke from an Iraqi Army position after a US Apache...
Iraqi Shiite Muslims waving their prayer carpets display a poster of radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during an anti-US protest following...
An Iraqi man stands near a car damaged in a car bomb explosion in Sadr city on April 23, 2010 in Baghdad, Iraq. A series of bombings rocked a market...
Troops patrol the deserted streets of the sprawling Shia slum of Sadr City at sunset after a day of tense clashes across the country with supporters...
Iraqis look at a car destroyed when a car bomb exploded on April 23, 2010 in the impoverished Baghdad district of Sadr City. A series of five car...
Iraqis give their votes for candidates nominated to the prime minister position in an unofficial referendum conducted by supporters of Shiite Iraqi...
Iraqi children sit in a mini ferris wheel ride in a fairground while celebrating on the second day of the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday, which takes...
An Iraqi man shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote at a polling station in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City on March 7, 2010....
An Iraqi woman casts her ballot in her country's general elections on March 7, 2010 in Baghdad's Sadr City. Iraqis defied waves of bomb, mortar and...
An Iraqi woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City on March 7, 2010. Dozens of mortars rained down on...
Iraqis inspect the aftermath of an explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City district on June 7, 2018. - At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured...
Iraqis inspect the aftermath of an explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City district on June 7, 2018. - At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured...
Iraqis inspect the aftermath of an explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City district on June 7, 2018. - At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured...
An Iraqi labourer works on a poster of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr at a printing shop in Sadr City, east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 23, 2018....
Iraqi Shiite Muslim youth wave their national flag during a protest against the earlier visit of US Vice President Joe Biden and against the Baath...
Iraqi workers haul sacks of flour donated by the United States in an open black market in the Sadr City locality of Baghdad 11 September 2003. The...
Soldier patrols a street before a mural of the late Shiite leaders Mohammed Baqr al-Sadr and his son Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr 07 September...
Year-old Iraqi weightlifter Huda Salim Al-Saedi trains on January 18, 2018 at a club in Sadr City, east of Baghdad. The weightlifters on Iraq's...
Iraqi weightlifters Angian Hazem and Haiyt Karim train on January 18, 2018 at a club in Sadr City, east of Baghdad. - The weightlifters on Iraq's...
Iraqi weightlifter Hadeel Salem Al-Saedi trains on January 18, 2018 at a club in Sadr City, east of Baghdad. The weightlifters on Iraq's national...
Year-old Iraqi weightlifter Huda Salim Al-Saedi trains on January 18, 2018 at a club in Sadr City, east of Baghdad. The weightlifters on Iraq's...
Iraqi weightlifters of Iraq's national women's team train on January 18, 2018 at a club in Sadr City, east of Baghdad. The weightlifters on Iraq's...
Iraqi clerics, tribal leaders and police gather at a meeting in Baghdad's Sadr City district on May 28, 2009. Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada...
An Iraqi woman shows her inked finger after voting on January 31, 2009 in the Sadr city district in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis went to the polls on...
An Iraqi woman votes on January 31, 2009 in the Sadr city district in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis went to the polls on January 31, 2009 to elect their...
An Iraqi woman casts her vote on January 31, 2009 in Sadr city district in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis went to the polls on January 31, 2009 to elect their...
An Iraqi man is helped by an elelction worker at a poll station on January 31, 2009 in the Sadr city district in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis went to the...
Iraqi Shiite Muslim women arrive to vote in the provincial elections on January 31 2009, in Baghdad's Sadr City district. Voting in Iraq's provincial...
Iraqis loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr burn American and Israeli flags during a protest against the Israeli air strikes in Gaza on...
An Iraqi shouts as he holds up a slipper and a sign as they protest against yesterday's visit by US President George W. Bush and the arrest of an...
Iraqis look at the damage following a car bomb explosion in Baghdad's Shiite-majority district of Sadr City on August 28, 2017. Security sources said...
An Iraqi boy eats potatoe chips as he leans against a wall adorned with a poster advertising a political party in impoverished Sadr City neighborhood...
An Iraqi soldier inspects on October 21, 2008 a large amount of weapons which have been found in an industrial area in Baghdad's Sadr City. The...
Two Iraqi officers inspect on October 21, 2008 a large amount of weapons which have been found in an industrial area in Baghdad's Sadr City. The...
Brigader General David Perkins , spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq, and Iraqi spokesman for Operation Fardh al-Qanoon , Tahseen al-Sheikhly ,...
Iraqi Shiite Muslims are pictured under an Iraqi flag as they perform the weekly Friday prayer in Baghdad's Sadr city on October 17 one day ahead of...
Iraqi painters decorate the cement security wall on August 7, 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr city east of Baghdad, Iraq. The wall was...
Iraqi children play football next to the security wall with an Iraqi flag painted on it, August 6, 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr city east of...
Iraqi children play football next to the security wall with an Iraqi flag painted on it, August 6, 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr city east of...
Iraqis burn US flags while rallying after Friday midday prayers in the populous Shiite stronghold district of Sadr City, on the outskirts of Baghdad...
Iraqi policemen clear away assault rifles seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City that were...
Weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City are displayed at the 9th Iraqi Army Division...
Two US Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID and an Iraqi Army soldier use a laser range finder binoculars to determine a GPS...
Looking across al-Quds Street, US Army M-1 tanks guard the concrete barrier dividing Sadr City at dawn before Iraqi Armed forces move through to take...
Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID take cover behind armored vehicles to an area where 15-foot concrete barriers are to be placed...
Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID watch from a rooftop as US soldiers and engineers clear an area where 15-foot concrete...
Young boys living in Sadr City at a concrete wall recently erected by American forces look over destroyed and burned vehicles from heavy fighting...
Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID take cover behind armored vehicles to an area where 15-foot concrete barriers are to be placed...
Army soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th ID, search the street after an IED explosion outside Jamila Market district near a 15-foot...
Residents of Sadr City watch as a construction crew mend the neighborhood's main fresh water and sewage pipes cracked by three rocket attacks inside...
Troops navigate across a lake of sewage on a street in the Jamila market area of Sadr City May 28, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq. The market, one of...
Army Lt. Col. Michael Pemrick, the deputy commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division walks with members of his troop...
Army soldier of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division stands next to an Iraqi Army armored vehicle in a deserted market area, that...
Army soldier of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division patrols in a deserted market area, that recently saw heavy fighting, May 25,...
Army Lt. Col. Michael Pemrick, the deputy commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division walks with members of his troop...
An Iraqi girl smiles as she gets a stuffed animal supplied by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division of the US Army during a...
Iraqi commandos stand guard at a checkpoint on May 20, 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi security forces moved into...
Iraqi commandos stand guard at a checkpoint on May 20, 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi security forces moved into...
Iraqi boys swim in a pond caused by an explosion from recent fighting on May 20, 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi...
Iraqi army soldiers drive a tank down a street on May 20, 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi security forces have moved...