Iraqi PM says his govt stopped civil war
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday his government had stopped Iraq sliding into civil war and pledged his commitment to reconciling the country's majority Shi'ites and Sunni Arabs.
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Civil war has been averted in Iraq and Iranian intervention there has "ceased to exist," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told lawmakers on Monday his government had stopped Iraq sliding into civil war and said violence in and around Baghdad had plunged under a U.S.-backed security crackdown.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki flew to Jordan for crisis talks with President Bush on Wednesday, prompting a radical Shi'ite faction to suspend participation in his government in anger.
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Iraq is &quot;working 24 hours a day to ... stop the terrorists,&quot; interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Monday. Iraqis are pushing ahead with reforms and improvements, Allawi told
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Iraq's interim government declared a  state of emergency for 60 days on Sunday to quell violence  gripping the country ahead of January elections.
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BAGHDAD, Aug 29  - The Iraqi government and the office of Shiite Muslim radical leader Moqtada Sadr held talks Sunday to try to end continued fighting in his militia&#39;s Baghdad stronghold of Sadr City.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says his government has &quot;new plans&quot; to crush the country&#39;s insurgency and restore security.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki flew to the western city of Ramadi on Tuesday on his first visit to the heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency fighting his U.S.-backed government.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki told his security forces on Tuesday to show no mercy toward insurgents in a security crackdown in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 23 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed Tuesday to halt the activities of Kurdish separatists staging strikes into Turkey from northern Iraq, marking his government's strongest declaration yet that it would act to forestall a Turkish invasion.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has declared martial law and says a US-led military offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja could not be delayed much longer.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister announced a plan yesterday aimed at ending the deepening crisis between Shi'ite and Sunni parties in his government and uniting them behind the drive to stop sectarian killings that have bloodied the country for months.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki flew to the violent city of Ramadi on Tuesday on his first visit to the heartland of Sunni Arab insurgents fighting his U.S.-backed government.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sought to calm anger on Friday over his description of states that opposed the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein as "spectators."
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's prime minister flew to the holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday and declared order had been restored after gunbattles among Shi'ite factions killed 52 people and forced hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to flee.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister warned yesterday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.