Sattar Jumma was twelve years old. He was one of the two civilians killed in the American Airstrike which also wounded six civilians.Sattar died of his wounds on arrival at hospital.The photo shows a paramedic closing the dead child's eyes. Hussein Hussein was one of ...
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"When Umm Mohammed threw herself over the body of her son who was hit by a sniper’s bullet just outside their house in Sadr City, she would have never thought that the next bullet would kill her,” a local resident of the Shiite slum said. Editor's Note: This ...
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"كنا نسمع صراخ ابو محمد طالبا من الجيران ان يساعدوه في الخروج من المنزل لاغاثتهم، خصوصا وانه فقد احدى ساقيه بانفجار وقع ببغداد العام الماضي، ويعاني من قصر النظر، لكن حين هرعوا اليهم، كانا قد توفيا." "حين القت ام محمد نفسها على ابنها الذي اصابته رصاصة قناص امام ...
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Deaths and injuries are soaring in the Sadr City as U.S. troops increase their military and economic pressure on the city home to more than 2.5 million people. More than 532 people among them women and children have been killed in the past two weeks, hospital sources in ...
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اقتحام مكتب الصدر واعتقال عدد من المطلوبين في الشعلة بدات القوات الامنية العراقية وباسناد من القوات متعددة الجنسيات صباح اليوم الاثنين بعمليات عسكرية تستهدف الخارجين على القانون في منطقة الشعلة غربي العاصمة بغداد.وقال مصدر امني ان قوة كبيرة من الجيش العراقي شنت حملة دهم وتفتيش واقتحمت مكتب الشهيد ...
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — A US air strike damaged a hospital in the Iraqi capital's violent Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, injuring 20 people, as American forces claimed to have killed 14 militiamen. The US military said it carried out the strike in Sadr City, a bastion of anti-American ...
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TWO-YEAR-OLD Moqtada Raed never stood a chance of recovering from the shrapnel wound to his leg. At the Imam Ali hospital in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City last week, he writhed on his thin plastic mattress and whimpered to his father, Ahmad, who knew that nothing could be done ...
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" ما ذنب النساء والاطفال في المدينة ممن يقتلون نتيجة هذه العمليات." طالب عدد من شيوخ عشائر مدينة الصدر،السبت ، بفك الحصار المفروض على المدينة الواقعة شمال شرقي بغداد وإيقاف العمليات العسكرية التي تتعرض لها. وقال عجم الساعدي ، ممثلاً عن شيخ عشيرة السواعد في مدينة الصدر للوكالة ...
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بلغت حصيلة المواجهات الناشبة في مدينة الصدر خلال الساعات الـ24 الماضية 35 قتيلا و129 جريحا حسبما افاد به مصدر طبي في المدينة الواقعة شرقي بغداد. وقال المصدر الذي طلب عدم ذكر اسمه، للوكالة المستقلة للأنباء (اصوات العراق) الثلاثاء ان "حصيلة المواجهات في مدينة الصدر بلغت خلال ...
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In this photo 2 year old Ali Hussein is seen being pulled from the rubble of his family's home in Sadr City Tuesday, April 29, 2008.Ali's home was one of four destroyed by U.S. missiles.Ali died in hospital a few hours later. In ...
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