Part of the Iraq War, the Iraqi Civil War, and the Battle of Baghdad (2006–2008)
Two US Army soldiers during a patrol through Sadr City in February 2006
Date
April 4, 2004 – May 11, 2008 (4 years, 1 month and 1 week)
Location
Sadr City, Iraq
Result
Ceasefire agreement signed
Iraqi government forces allowed to enter and patrol Sadr City[2]
End of the Iraqi Civil War
Belligerents
United States Iraq United Kingdom[1]
Mahdi Army Pre-occupation Iraqi Armed Forces
Commanders and leaders
Robert B. Abrams (1st Cav) Abboud Qanbar
Muqtada al-Sadr Tahseen al Freiji Arkan Muhammad Ali al Hasnawi †
Strength
10,000+ (May 2008)
May 2008 6,000 – 8,000 (U.S. military estimate)[3]
Casualties and losses
300 to 350 killed
800 to 1,000 killed
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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 the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad. The siege began on 4 April 2004 – later dubbed "Black Sunday"[4] – with an uprising against the Coalition Provisional Authority following the government banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement. The most intense periods of fighting in Sadr City occurred during the first uprising in April 2004, the second in August the same year, during the sectarian conflict that gripped Baghdad in late 2006, during the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, and during the spring fighting of 2008.
^Urban, Mark, Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the Secret Special Forces War in Iraq , St. Martin's Griffin, 2012 ISBN 1250006961 ISBN 978-1250006967, p.232
^Cite error: The named reference wapo20080520 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Roggio, Bill (21 May 2008). "US military killed Mahdi Army commander Arkan Hasnawi in May 3 strike". FDD's Long War Journal. Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
^Roane, Kit R. (16 March 2007). "U.S. forces learn a hard lesson in Sadr City". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
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