Iraq PM says his government averted civil war
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said 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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IraqÂs leader unveiled a plan to defuse sectarian crises, but it was unclear whether it could stem the increasingly brazen violence.
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Iraq's interim prime minister warned Monday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.
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LONDON - The violence in Iraq will not stop the country&#39;s elections from going ahead, as planned, next January, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani disputed on Tuesday reports of growing violence in his country and declared, "I can assure you there will be no civil war."
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Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday responded to critics in the U.S. Congress, saying his government had kept Iraq from sliding into sectarian civil war.
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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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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq&#39;s interim government said it had defused a Shi&#39;ite rebellion in Najaf on Friday without a shot being fired, but rebel militiamen denied police had seized the city&#39;s sacred Imam Ali Mosque from their control.
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Nearly two months after Sunni Arab ministers walked out, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears to have weathered a political crisis that once threatened to bring down his government.
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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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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says elections will go ahead as scheduled in January despite unrelenting violence. Allawi spoke after meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described
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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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Iraq's parliament on Tuesday welcomed an agreement designed to staunch sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad, but there was no sign of further talks to add substance to the prime minister's sketchy four-point plan.
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Iraq's Shiite-led government declared Saturday that after restive areas are calmed it will disband Sunni groups battling Islamic extremists because it does not want them to become a separate military force.
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BAGHDAD - Hours before congressional hearings on the progress of the US military buildup, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki addressed his own parliament yesterday, saying security has improved dramatically in the capital and Iraq is moving away from civil war.
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The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election, and a spokesman for the majority Shiite community called the date &quot;nonnegotiable
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country.