Quiet US bid to talk to Iraqi insurgents
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One Iraqi official says American representatives have met with some militants.
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Syria played down on Tuesday the significance of having taken part in talks with the United States on Iraq, saying removal of mutual suspicion with Washington would take time.
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The Web sites through which the insurgency in Iraq communicates with the world sound shadowy and illicit when they are mentioned in American media. On the nightly news, a blurry bit of violence in a dun-colored country is introduced with a vague reference to a new video posted on a jihadist Web...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Talks to end fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City have stalled, with the government refusing militant demands for American troops to keep out of the troubled district, officials said Wednesday...
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US Marines appeared yesterday to be moving closer to a decisive battle in the Sunni Triangle area west of Baghdad, where insurgents are using violence and intimidation
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The commander of US forces in Iraq says violence has decreased, but the country still faces many problems.
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The American offensive in Falluja will test the administration&#39;s belief that the Iraqi insurgency can be subdued in time for the country&#39;s elections in
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said Sunday he has held private meetings with representatives of insurgent groups from the restive cities of Fallujah
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A message purportedly from rebel leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi urges resistance to US forces in Iraq.
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As a well-funded insurgency stiffens, US officials worry about lack of inside knowledge of resistance cells.
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In talks with some groups, the US aims to convince Shiite militias that political reconciliation, not violence, is the way forward.
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negotiator for the rebel-held city says its people are being asked to chase shadows. top enemy in Iraq, or face military action. told Arabic Al Jazeera television on Thursday, adding that the government had now halted peace talks.
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Relations are deteriorating among insurgents as local fighters negotiate to avoid a U.S.-led military offensive against Fallujah, while foreign fighters press to attack Americans and their Iraqi supporters.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States is backing away from efforts to pressure European allies to join or remain in the American-led military force in Iraq and instead is working to coax those countries into participating in other initiatives in the region, according to senior Bush administration and European officials.
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Â· Guns and equipment already handed overÂ· Insurgents promise not to attack Americans
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The rapid US push into Fallujah has come without the sort of fateful showdown that would break the back of the insurgency. In fact, advance US and Iraqi
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In a Sunni stronghold just south of Baghdad, the U.S. military has been persuading militants to switch sides. But itâs not at all clear that the enemyâs new enemy is really a friend.