Iraq says closes borders with Syria, Iran
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Iraq's government said on Tuesday it had closed its borders with Syria and Iran and extended the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.- backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital.
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Iraq will close its land borders from  Jan. 29 to 31 and impose a curfew banning all non-official  vehicles from the roads over the same period to try to prevent  attacks on election day, officials said on Tuesday.
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Iraq's prime minister urged regional rivals on Saturday to stop using Iraq as a battlefield to fight out their proxy wars, addressing a meeting at which U.S. officials sat down with adversaries from Iran and Syria.
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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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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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BAGHDAD -- The foreign ministers of Iraq and Syria formally announced the resumption of diplomatic relations yesterday, with pledges to strengthen communication and security between the two neighbors.
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Syria and Iraq are to restore diplomatic relations, after a break of more than 20 years, it is announced in Baghdad.
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The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced Tuesday 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.
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Iraq says it will close the offices of the Kurdish PKK rebel group and stop its operations in the country.
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US officials say Syria has agreed to tighten its border with Iraq to prevent insurgents from entering the country. The State Department says Syria agreed to coordinate with Iraqi and multinational forces.
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Iraq said Tuesday it would shut its  land borders and bar traffic from getting close to voting  centers over the Jan. 30 polls to try to thwart attacks, as  insurgents targeted a Shi'ite party with a suicide bomb.
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Iraq's government said on Sunday it was taking important steps to end what it called the "terrorist actions" of Kurdish rebels who use its mountainous north as a base for attacks on neighboring Turkey.
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Iraq's president said Wednesday he had reached a security agreement with Iran, which the United States accuses of fueling the chaos in the war-torn country. Iran's president called on countries to stop backing "terrorists" in Iraq and for the Americans to withdraw.
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The United States and Europe must talk to  Syria and Iran if they want a comprehensive solution to Iraq  and other Middle East conflicts, Syrian President Bashar  al-Assad said in an interview published on Friday.
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Iraq and Syria restored full diplomatic relations on Tuesday after a 24-year rift in a move Iraq hopes can help stem what it says is Syrian support for militants and encourage other Arab states to rally to its aid.
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Iraq invited officials from Iran, Syria and other neighboring nations to Baghdad next month to discuss the security situation in the country, a government official said Thursday.
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Syria and Iraq signed on to a plan Monday to cooperate in combating terrorism and crime, the official SUNA Syrian news agency said.