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"BAGHDAD — Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled Shiite fighters in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood in clashes that killed 22 people and wounded more than 50 despite a cease-fire between the government and the militia, officials said Sunday.
To the north, police said gunmen seized 42 students off a bus near the city of Mosul — al-Qaida’s last major urban stronghold — but later released them unharmed.
The U.S. military said that fighting broke out overnight in Sadr City, a stronghold of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s militants. Officials at two local hospitals said 22 people were killed and 92 wounded.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, did not say whether the casualties were civilians or fighters. U.S. and Iraqi forces released no information about the casualties.
A police officer said that a U.S. Stryker armored personnel carrier was damaged in the fighting, which continued with sporadic exchanges of fire through Sunday morning.
Two armored Humvee vehicles and two trucks belonging to the Iraqi army were also destroyed, said the officer, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The U.S. military said it had no information about a Stryker being damaged."
New fighting breaks out in Sadr City - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times
To the north, police said gunmen seized 42 students off a bus near the city of Mosul — al-Qaida’s last major urban stronghold — but later released them unharmed.
The U.S. military said that fighting broke out overnight in Sadr City, a stronghold of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s militants. Officials at two local hospitals said 22 people were killed and 92 wounded.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, did not say whether the casualties were civilians or fighters. U.S. and Iraqi forces released no information about the casualties.
A police officer said that a U.S. Stryker armored personnel carrier was damaged in the fighting, which continued with sporadic exchanges of fire through Sunday morning.
Two armored Humvee vehicles and two trucks belonging to the Iraqi army were also destroyed, said the officer, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The U.S. military said it had no information about a Stryker being damaged."
New fighting breaks out in Sadr City - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times