BBC
The Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr City appears calm on the first day of a ceasefire between the Iraqi government and Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
The authorities reported no violence on Sunday as gunmen withdrew from the streets and shops reopened.
Hundreds of people have been killed in weeks of fighting between Shia militants and the Iraqi army.
The truce came as army troops began a major operation in northern Iraq against al-Qaeda and its allies.
Under the agreement announced on Saturday, Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army militiamen are to lay down their weapons and remove snipers and bombs from roads leading into Sadr City. .......
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