An Iraqi boy plays in front of flames blocking a street in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City neighborhood 18 May 2004. Residents of Sadr city blocked many roads in Sadr City, in a bid to prevent US military vehicles from entering the poor slums. One Iraqi was killed and five wounded in the holy city of Karbala in night-time clashes between coalition troops and the militia of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. [Photo/icpress] |
Fifteen-year-old Hoda lifts weights at a gym in Sadr City on September 20, 2012. A conservative, Shiite-majority area of Baghdad serves as the unlikely base for Iraq's first female national weightlifting team, which is due to compete in Morocco on September 27. [Photo/icpress] |