Reporter Freed as Rebel Cleric Brokers a Deal
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The journalist was released after Moktada al-Sadr intervened, even as his Shiite militia engaged in heavy fighting in Najaf, Iraq.
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CAIRO -- Egyptian authorities have released a Muslim cleric kidnapped in a suspected CIA operation in Italy and handed to Egypt, the cleric's lawyer said yesterday.
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The BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston is freed from kidnappers after almost four months in captivity.
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Rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will remain a free man after he agreed a peace deal to end an uprising in the holy city of Najaf, Minister of State Kasim Daoud told a news conference early Friday.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
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Guerrillas loyal to Moktada al-Sadr ceded control of the holy site to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, but did not give up their guns.
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U.S. journalist Micah Garen was on Sunday  freed by an Iraqi group who had held him hostage in the  southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, reached an apparent agreement with the radical cleric Muqtada Sadr yesterday to end a three-week uprising by Sadr&#39;s Army of Mehdi militiamen in Najaf.
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Palestinian militants yesterday released an Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN a day after abducting him at gunpoint in the
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The U.S. military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim government's efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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A kidnapped American journalist was released, even as Moktada al-Sadr's militia engaged in heavy fighting in Najaf.
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Negotiators from Myanmar&#39;s largest armed rebel group have been freed after they were detained during a political shakeup in Yangon, the rebel group said today.
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As fighting flared up between US troops and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, a US journalist kidnapped since August 13 was released in good health.
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BAGHDAD A senior aide to the rebel Iraqi cleric Moktada al-Sadr was released from US detention on Thursday, said an aide to Sadr, Sheik Mahmoud Sudani.
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French-American journalist Micah Garen was released in Nasiriya and was in US hands late Sunday after being kidnapped by insurgents in the southern Iraq city more than a week ago.
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One of the two CBS journalists kidnapped in the Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday has been released.
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A deal has been struck with the kidnappers of two journalists working for CBS News who were reported missing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a spokesman for influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday.