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'''Bab Al-Sharqi''' is a [[neighborhood]] of central [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]]. The area surrounding Bab Al-Sharqi market is a stronghold of the [[Mahdi Army]], the main Shia militia in central Iraq.((citation needed|date=July 2014)).

==Background==
[[File:Sadr_City_April_2008.jpg|thumb|alt=Bab al-Sharqi is directly across the river from the Green Zone |Bab al-Sharqi is directly across the river from the Green Zone]]

This Shi'a neighborhood saw some of the most intense [[Sectarian violence in Iraq (2006–07)|sectarian fighting]] during [[Iraq War|Operation Iraqi Freedom]]. It continued to be plagued by routine attacks as late as 2016.<ref name=aljazeera2015>((Cite web |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/30/islamic-state-attacks-near-kirkuk-bombs-kill-18-in-baghdad.html |title="Iraqi cities rocked by deadly attacks" ''&#91;&#91;Al Jazeera America&#93;&#93;'', 30 January 2015. Retrieved on 8 November 2016. |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611164244/http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/30/islamic-state-attacks-near-kirkuk-bombs-kill-18-in-baghdad.html |archive-date=11 June 2016 |url-status=live ))</ref>

Bab al-Sharqi is located on the east bank of the Tigris River, near the [[Battle of Baghdad (2003)|Jumhuriya Bridge]]. It is directly across the river from the Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Information and the [[Green Zone]].

==22 January 2007 Car Bombs==

On [[22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings|22 January 2007]] two powerful [[car bomb]]s ripped through the Bab Al-Sharqi market in [[Baghdad]], killing at least 88 people and wounding 160 others in one of the bloodiest [[Iraqi insurgency (2003–11)|insurgent]] attacks of [[Iraq War|Operation Iraqi Freedom]].<ref name=bbc2007>((Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6286459.stm |title="Scores killed in Iraq bloodshed" ''&#91;&#91;BBC News&#93;&#93;'', 22 January 2007. Retrieved on 8 November 2016. |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204170920/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6286459.stm |archive-date=4 December 2016 |url-status=live ))</ref> The attack coincided with the arrival of 3,200 additional troops into Baghdad as part of the [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|troop surge of 2007]].<ref name=bbc2007 />

Only three months after the devastating attack, Senator [[Lindsey Graham]] complained that the media was not giving the American people "the full picture of what's going on here." Though he mostly stayed within the heavily secured Green Zone, and traveled outside the Green Zone only with a heavily armed military escort, he unabashedly told reporters of the "signs of success" he witnessed on his visit to Bab al-Sharqi:<ref>((Cite web |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/01/sm.02.html |title="CNN Sunday morning transcript’ ''&#91;&#91;CNN&#93;&#93;'', 4 April 2007. Retrieved on 8 November 2016. |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121160510/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/01/sm.02.html |archive-date=21 January 2016 |url-status=live ))</ref> ((quote|text=We went to the market and were just really warmly welcomed. I bought five rugs for five bucks. And people were engaging, and just a few weeks ago, hundreds of people, dozens of people were killed in this same place.|author=Lindsey Graham))

==30 January 2015==

19 people were killed and 28 wounded when two bombs went off in Baghdad's Bab al-Sharqi district.<ref name=aljazeera2015 />

==21 January 2021 Twin Suicide Bombing(s)==
Suicide bombs rock busy Baghdad market, killing at least 32 and 100 wounded in the attack.

==References==
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((Administrative districts in Baghdad))
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[[Category:Neighborhoods in Baghdad]]


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