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Baghdad: Iraqi forces have taken control of the last militia stronghold of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr in the southern city of Basra, the US military said in a statement on Saturday.
It said Iraqi troops began the last stage of Operation Saulat Al Farsan (Charge of the Knights) on Friday in Basra's northern neighbourhood of Al Huteen, a bastion of Al Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.
Overnight clashes claim eight lives
Fierce overnight clashes between Shiite militiamen and US and Iraqi forces in Sadr City killed at least eight people, including two children, a medic told reporters on Saturday.
"Those killed include two children and a woman," he said. The clashes broke out as security forces were putting up concrete barriers in the district, bastion of anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr.
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