http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq]Officials: 55 dead in Basra, Baghdad (AP)[/URL]



AP - At least 55 people have died in two days of fighting between Shiite militias and U.S.-Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, officials said Wednesday. Some 300 people were reported wounded in the clashes, which present the gravest challenge to the Iraqi government in months.