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    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...
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    Saraya al-Salam (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Siege of Sadr City, the slogans and banners carrying propaganda in support of Sadr and Mahdi army were present in both occasions. After Siege of Sadr...
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    Republic (SADR) – partially recognised state that claims sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Sahara, is a former Spanish colony. The SADR was proclaimed...
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    organisation of the vanished Imam Musa al-Sadr, which has been headed since his disappearance in 1978 by his sister Rabab al-Sadr. While the foundation operates...
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    al-Sadr and his militia, the Mahdi Army, in the south of the country. Muqtada al-Sadr also has great influence in the Sadr City section of Baghdad (Sadr...
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  • S. Army unit during the first day of the siege of Sadr City (Arabic: مدينة الصدر, romanized: Madīna 'ṣ-Ṣadr) in 2004. The series stars Michael Kelly,...
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    Shemali. In this context, despite his pledges to nonviolent means, Sadr also founded the de facto military wing of his movement in 1975, just before the outbreak...
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    have been defeated, or have left..." However, Sadr remained in control of parts of Najaf and Sadr City, while the U.S. continued to patrol in the south...
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  • (2001–2021) Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (2002) – Second Intifada Siege of Monrovia (2003) – Second Liberian Civil War Siege of Sadr City (2004–2008)...
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    The siege of Northern Homs was a siege lasting six years, by the Syrian government in the northern part of the Homs Governorate during the Syrian civil...
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    also been damaged by an RPG-29 in Iraq, while fighting Shia militias at Sadr City. The US Army ranks the RPG-29 threat to armor so high that they refused...
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    countrymen who jeered him in Arabic and praised the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and his subsequent fall through the trap door of the gallows. Saddam's body...
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    terrain to carry out operations. IS has also made a notable presence in the cities of Kirkuk, Hawija and Tuz Khurmato and has carried out attacks at night...
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  • to proceed with a crackdown. Eventually, as Sadr's rhetoric heated and his militia paraded through Sadr City in what seemed like a challenge to the United...
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    Isfahan (redirect from The City of Isfahan)
    century) Kordi Kassegaran school (1694) Khajoo Madrasa Nimavar School (1691) Sadr Madrasa (19th century) In total, there are more than 7,329 schools in Isfahan...
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    April: Buratha Mosque bombing. 1 July: Sadr City bombing. 9 July: Hay al Jihad massacre. 23 November: Sadr City bombings. 2007 16 January: Mustansiriya...
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    In August 2004, al-Sadr attempted a second rebellion, and his al-Mahdi army again incited violence, especially in the Sadr city slum area of Baghdad...
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    city was overrun by insurgent forces from three different Iraqi factions including the Mahdi Army, and the British found themselves under major siege...
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    an irate letter from Chancellor (Sadr-e A'zam) Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri to Hesam o-Saltaneh, in which he berates the siege's slow progress despite an army of...
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    Mahdi Army area of operation stretches from Basra in the south to the Sadr City section of Baghdad in central Iraq (some scattered Shi'a militia activity...
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    1970s, originally owing to the Lebanese Civil War. In March 1974, Musa al-Sadr announced the launching of the "Movement of the Deprived" in front of a rally...
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    Division) 43rd Infantry Brigade - Western Baghdad 44th Infantry Brigade - Sadr City 45th Infantry Brigade - Eastern Baghdad (planned to be operational in...
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  • setting up checkpoints throughout Beirut and the South, actions which Musa Sadr denounced as unrepresentative of the mainstream PLO. Israel's second invasion...
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    a suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb in a crowded marketplace in Sadr City, Baghdad, killing at least 75 people and injuring 212 more. On 27 August...
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    the emergence of the Mahdi Army, the militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, as a major armed faction which, at that time, actively participated in anti-Coalition...
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    such as the "Sunni Triangle". Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of a large anti-American faction in Baghdad's Sadr City, issued a fatwa allowing his followers...
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    p. 1-32 Bakhīt, Muḥammad ʻAdnān; ʻAbbās, Iḥsān (1987). Bilād al-Shām fī ṣadr al-Islām: 24-30 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1405 H/16-22 Ādhār 1985 : al-nadwah al-thānīyah...
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    similar scenes in Najaf. The demonstrators in Sadr City and Najaf alluded to the shoes. Participants in Sadr City "waved shoes attached to long poles," and...
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    al-Kabir Ramadan Offensive 2004 Spring fighting Karbala City Hall Fallujah I Siege of Sadr City Ramadi I Good Friday ambush Baghdad International Airport...
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    when they faced off against the Mahdi army of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the city of Kut. In the resulting clashes, Ukrainian soldiers lost one soldier...
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