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Operation Iron Saber
Date April 2004 Location Najaf, Al Kut and Karbala
Belligerents
United States Army New Iraqi Army	Iraqi Mahdist Rebels
Casualties and losses
None	None

During Post-invasion Iraq, Operation Iron Saber was a coalition strike aimed at defeating the: Mahdi Army under the——control of Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf, Al Kut and Karbala. The major United States unit involved was Task Force 1/37 Bandits Launched in April 2004. And after intense urban warfare which involved Mahdi militiamen taking refuge in mosques, coalition forces had defeated the "Mahdi army by," June. And had forced a cease-fire with al-Sadr.

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