Iraqi Leaders Meet in Peace Effort
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug. 29, 2004 - The US military and Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders held talks Sunday aimed a reducing tensions in the Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, where 10 people died in fighting a day earlier between Shiite militiamen and US troops.
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Delegates from the United States and Iran are at the same table Saturday, at a meeting in Baghdad to discuss security for war-torn Iraq. The meeting could break the ice or offer new opportunities for discord between Washington and Tehran. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he did not want his country to be a political battleground.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish political leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key measures seen as vital to fostering national reconciliation.
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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 ...
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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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Sunni and Shia leaders in Iraq agree to a four-point plan aimed at cutting sectarian violence in the country.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, left, is seen during a meeting with Sunni Muslim clerics at his offices in Baghdad&#39;s &quot;Green Zone&quot;, Saturday Oct. 30, 2004.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani met the country's Sunni vice president on Thursday for the first time to discuss a new initiative aimed at uniting feuding politicians.
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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.
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Halting violent sectarian strife in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, will dominate President Bush's summit with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki next week in the Middle East.
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Iraq's interim prime minister Iyad Allawi has held private meetings with Iraqi insurgents in an effort to persuade them to accept a government amnesty offer, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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Iraq's leaders stepped back from the   brink of a political crisis on Sunday in the hope of preventing   a dispute over local control of oilfields erupting into all-out   sectarian civil war.
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The Iraqi foreign minister said today that the interim Iraqi government planned to meet soon in Jordan with leaders of the insurgency to try to persuade them to take part in legitimate politics here.
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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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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki invited neighboring countries and world powers on Wednesday to a March 10 meeting in Baghdad, saying he hoped it would help bring reconciliation and support for his government.
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Days ahead of his meeting with President Bush, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said that IraqÂs leaders would work to resolve their political conflicts.
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United Nations - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Friday appealed to world leaders at the United Nations to put aside their differences over the war and help rebuild his shattered nation.