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), is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim and named Al-Rafidain District. After the US-led invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam, it was unofficially renamed Sadr City after Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.
Sadr City – or more accurately Thawra District (Arabic: حيّ الثورة, romanized: Ḥayy ath-Thawra) – is one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad. A public housing project neglected by Saddam Hussein, Sadr City holds around 1 million residents.[1]
^ ab"تقديرات السكان 2015-2018" (PDF). Central Statistical Organization Iraq. 2018. p. 277. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2022.
SadrCity (Arabic: مدينة الصدر, romanized: Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr), formerly known as Al-Thawra (Arabic: الثورة, romanized: aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City (Arabic:...
The siege of SadrCity was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by US and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy...
Look up Sadr, SADR, or saðr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sadr or SADR may refer to: SadrCity, a neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Sadr, Iran, a village...
targeted the SadrCity district of Baghdad. These include but are not limited to 1 July 2006 SadrCity bombing 23 November 2006 SadrCity bombings 24 June...
Army (Arabic: جيش المهدي) was an Iraqi Shia militia created by Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008. The Mahdi Army rose to international...
in the city ended after al-Sadr's declaration of a new cease-fire. By that point the Mahdi Army was still in control of about 75% of the city. Up to 236...
The 2006 SadrCity bombings were a series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Iraq that occurred on 23 November at 15:10 Baghdad time (12:10 Greenwich...
suicide car bombings took place in a Shia Muslim eastern district of SadrCity, as well as behind the Kindi and Imam Ali hospitals, killing 56 people...
were the area around Fallujah and the poor Shia sections of cities from Baghdad (SadrCity) to Basra in the south. Following the United States' invasion...
al-Sadr and his militia, the Mahdi Army, in the south of the country. Muqtada al-Sadr also has great influence in the SadrCity section of Baghdad (Sadr...
joining the east and west of the city. The governorate's northeast includes multiple Mesopotamian Marshes. The SadrCity district is the most densely populated...
a battle with rival Special Group Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq for influence in SadrCity. The Promised Day Brigade reportedly won the battle and even managed to...
truck bombing attack was launched targeting a Baghdad food market in SadrCity, a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood. On 13 August 2015, shortly after...
Provinces. The claimed capital city of the SADR is El Aaiún (the capital of the territory of Western Sahara). Since the SADR does not control El Aaiún, it...
[better source needed] Abu Deraa operated out of SadrCity, which is also the stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army. He has gained...
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...
Camp Marlboro was a U.S. Military Camp in SadrCity, Baghdad. It was built to facilitate military and peacekeeping operations in the densely populated...
(ISIS). The area of SadrCity saw repeated attacks targeting its Shia population. In February 2016 a pair of ISIL bombings in SadrCity killed 52 people...
attached to several graves at the Commonwealth military cemetery in Gaza City. Thirty-two graves of soldiers killed in World War I were desecrated or destroyed...
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