US forces reach ceasefire with militia in Najaf
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-05-28 10:30

Followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr chant in front of Najaf's Imam Ali shrine May 27, 2004. U.S. forces agreed to a truce offered by al-Sadr Thursday, suspending their attacks and allowing Sadr's Mehdi Army fighters to pull out of the city. [Reuters]

An Iraqi man waves the national flag as he rides in a vehicle with a poster of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr plastered on a window in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf. [AFP]

Fighters of the 'Mehdi army militia' hold posters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr as they chant slogans in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf, south of Baghdad. [AFP]

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