Al-Adel is a Neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq.[ It is located in Mansour district, in the portion of the city that lies west of the Tigris.
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Iraq War
In 2006, during the Iraqi civil war, the largely middle- and upper-class and mixed Shia Islam-Sunni Islam neighborhood of Al-Adel was taken over by militants linked to Al-Qaeda, forcing many Shiite residents to leave.
It was also the site of the kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll in 2006, and of the residence of Adnan al-Dulaimi, a Sunni leader implicated in the kidnapping.
In 2007, Al-Adel Shopping Center became the site of large-scale gun fighting.
