As U.S. jets roared overhead, Mahdi Army militiamen on Sunday battled with Iraqi troops and local police searching for two militia leaders in the southern city of Diwaniyah.

Sadr froze the Mahdi Army in 2007 to engage in the political process. While the leader in the Current Hazim al-Araji called in the second speech presented on behalf of al-Sadr all believers for an ...

The Mahdi Army is a young man's movement Sadr himself is only in his thirties but Jaafar, at 27, was a young leader even by Sadrist standards. With his well-trimmed beard and self-assurance, he ...

The nationalist Mahdi Army, one of Iraq’s largest armed groups, has clashed with pro-Iranian Shiite factions in the south, including the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and the Badr Organization.

Thousands of Mahdi Army fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took part in a show of force in Sadr city on Saturday. WSJ's Matt Bradley reports from Baghdad.

The American military had no immediate report on the action. The Mahdi Army, under the stridently anti-American Mr. al-Sadr, has emerged as one of the strongest autonomous forces in American-occupied ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military's drive to train and equip Iraq's security forces has unwittingly strengthened anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has ...

York Regional Police say a male suspect went to the Imam Mahdi Islamic Centre at approximately 11:45 p.m. on Oct. 13 and spray painted three areas of the mosque with 'derogatory, anti-Iranian ...

Under the new security plan, the general said, U.S. and Iraqi troops will sweep Baghdad neighborhoods in an effort to dislodge the Mahdi Army, as well as Sunni extremists -- including al-Qaida in ...

BAGHDAD, April 18 -- -- BAGHDAD, April 18 -- Iraqi security forces backed up by the U.S. military killed four Mahdi Army militiamen and captured 11 others Friday, the Interior Ministry said, in ...