Iraq to Ask Iran, Turkey for Border Help
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Iraq will ask Iran and Turkey for border security arrangements to keep foreign militants out, similar to measures already agreed with Syria, the Iraqi Foreign Minister said on Monday.
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Iraq says it will help Turkey deal with Kurdish rebels on its territory and resolve tensions through dialogue.
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Iran and the United States will meet shortly to discuss security in Iraq, following up on their landmark meeting in May, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Tuesday.
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Iran and Syria, long accused of enabling the violence in Iraq, are showing new interest in finding an end to the disorder.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials began work on Wednesday on setting up a security panel with Iran to try to end Iraq's bloodshed, and Tehran said it was open to higher-level talks with Washington.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would do whatever it could to help provide security to Iraq amid warnings the country was on the brink of civil war.
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Turkeyâs prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asked for help in the struggle against Kurdish separatists in Iraq.
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THE European Union has offered to start membership negotiations with Turkey, opening the way for the EUâs borders to reach Iraq and Iran, and for a poor Muslim nation in Asia to become the largest member of the Union.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 27 -- In the latest sign of a budding diplomatic relationship, Iraq's President Jalal Talabani arrived in Iran on Monday to seek his neighbor's help in ending his country's sectarian conflict, as Britain said it expects to withdraw thousands of troops by the end of next year.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is scheduled to fly to Tehran to meet with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Pressure is growing on Iraq's government and the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to look beyond the country's borders to bring an end to the ongoing violence.
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Iraq's foreign minister offers talks with Turkey, as cross-border tensions grow over Kurdish clashes.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to visit neighboring Iraq by March 19, Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday, a trip that would make him the first leader of the Islamic Republic to visit its former foe.
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Senior Iraqi ministers will go to Iran   on Tuesday, officials said, possibly paving the way for a first   official visit as prime minister by Nuri al-Maliki to Iraq's   powerful Shi'ite neighbor.
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Iran's foreign minister indicated Monday his country would take part in at least part of an international conference on Iraq in Baghdad, which would be the first U.S.-Iranian contact in more than two years.
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Iraq's prime minister will deliver a   blunt message to fellow Shi'ite Islamist leaders in Iran on   Tuesday that they should not interfere in Iraqi affairs.
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Iraq plans to close its borders with Iran and Syria for 72 hours in an attempt to secure the capital, the Iraqi commander in charge of Baghdad's security plan announced Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced yesterday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran and ordered the return of unlawfully seized homes, as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital along sectarian lines.