Iraqi forces on brink of controlling Sadr City, an insurgency hotbed

timesonline.co.uk     20-May-2008            

Ali Hamdani and Deborah Haynes, Baghdad Inside Iraq blog: Delivering aid to Sadr City Iraqi forces aim to be in complete control of Sadr City within 24 hours after some 10,000 troops, backed by tanks, pushed deep into the Baghdad Shia slum in an unprecedented operation. Militiamen who have... [read full story]                    


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