Iraq leaders seek to flesh out peace plan
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Iraqi leaders hope to flesh out a deal to end sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad when they meet again on Tuesday but conceded a four-point plan, drafted under U.S. pressure, was still a long way short on vital substance.
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U.S. commanders in Iraq are looking to   Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to give a lead on when security   forces can begin to crack down on party militias blamed for   much current violence, a top general said on Wednesday.
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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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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.
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Iraq&#39;s new prime minister, in his debut appearance before the UN General Assembly, appealed to world governments on Friday to put aside their differences over the war and help Baghdad rebuild.
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A Shi&#39;ite militia disarmament plan that could end weeks of fighting in Baghdad got off to a slow start on Monday as Iraq&#39;s interim government pursued peace talks with the rebel-held Sunni Muslim city of Falluja.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's ruling Shi'ite leaders on Friday urged neighboring states and Western powers to join forces to help prevent an all-out civil war that could spread across the oil-rich region.
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Political leaders in the capital struggled to reach a deal that would end the fight over splitting Iraq into autonomous states.
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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- Leaders meeting on Iraq's future plan to give strong backing to the interim government's war against insurgents but won't set a deadline for withdrawing US-led forces, despite a push by France and some Arab countries.
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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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Shi&#39;a tribal leaders in Baghdad&#39;s Al-Sadr City district met today with Iraqi police and US Army officials for talks on how to restore calm amid almost daily clashes that have killed and injured many people.
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The U.S. military and Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders held talks Sunday aimed at reducing tensions in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, where 10 people died in fighting a day earlier between Shiite militiamen and ...
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Iraq's Sunni vice president held a rare meeting Thursday with the country's top Shiite cleric to seek support for a 25-point blueprint for political reform, the latest effort by both Islamic sects to promote unity amid unrelenting violence.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Iraqi leaders on Thursday to end their "political inaction" and put aside their differences to rein in sectarian violence that threatens to tear apart the country.
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BAGHDAD The American-backed Iraqi government and representatives of Moktada al-Sadr, the rebellious Shiite cleric, continued talks on Monday, seeking a peace plan for the vast, volatile Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City that could set a precedent for
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Representatives of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups discussed ways to reconcile Tuesday and end the escalating sectarian violence threatening to break up the country.
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Iraqi Sunni and Shiite delegates made progress at secret peace talks in Finland, negotiators said Tuesday, cautioning that their Northern Ireland-inspired agreement would have to be endorsed by top leaders in Baghdad to have any chance of succeeding.