BAGHDAD Relative calm settled over Basra, neighboring provinces and Baghdad on Monday as a cease-fire took hold after nearly a week of pitched fighting between the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi government forces.
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Four-year-old Ghazi Askar, injured in clashes Sunday between Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and U.S.-backed government forces, remains hospitalized Monday in Baghdad's Sadr City slum. ...
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