Iraqi conference aims to end bloodshed
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Iraq holds a national conference on Saturday designed to halt mounting sectarian violence that has raised fears of civil war and been a major issue behind U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to review his strategy.
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Iraqi government officials and their American military backers opened talks yesterday with aides of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in an attempt to end three weeks of fighting in the slums of northern Baghdad.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Iraqâs interim prime minister appealed to world leaders at the UN General Assembly Friday to unite behind his countryâs effort to reign in spiraling violence and lighten the countryâs foreign debt and broaden support for coalition
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A regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday aims to rally support behind the Iraqi government and map out ways to cooperate in easing the country's bloody conflict. But the participants are coming in with starkly different agendas. The session gathers diplomats from Iraq's Arab neighbors as well as Iran, Turkey, the United States and the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi tribal leaders, Shiite politicians, government officials and U.S. military officers agreed Sunday to a one-day truce for peace talks to end violence in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a day after 10 people died in fighting there, Iraqi officials said...
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq arrived here today for a meeting with President Bush that will focus on finding a strategy to stop the violence in Iraq.
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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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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was   expected to present a national reconciliation plan to   parliament on Sunday aimed at defusing the Sunni insurgency and   tackling sectarian violence, political sources said.
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BAGHDAD An Iraqi national conference was told Wednesday that the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr had accepted conditions proposed by an Iraqi delegation to end fierce fighting in the holy city of Najaf, including the withdrawal of his militia from one of ...
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Representatives of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups discussed ways to reconcile Tuesday and end the escalating sectarian violence threatening to break up the country.
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The vision of national reconciliation in Iraq is plagued by a tenacious insurgency and sectarian warfare, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the United Nations Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 29. - Iraqi tribal leaders, Shiâite politicians, government officials and US military officers met today for talks aimed at reducing tensions in Sadr City, a day after clashes there killed 10 people.
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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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Iraqi delegates to a conference choosing a national assembly said Wednesday that radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had agreed to demands to end an uprising in the holy city of Najaf.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government is engaged in cease-fire talks with Sunni and Shi&#39;ite leaders in an effort to restore calm to violent parts of Iraq before January&#39;s scheduled election.
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Many words, little action from international conference which was meant to help solve bloody violence in Iraq. By Marc Burleigh - SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt.
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Iraq's neighbors including Iran and Syria have agreed to join U.S. and British representatives to discuss the Iraqi security crisis at a regional conference March 10 in Baghdad, the government said Wednesday.