Iraq 'Shia militia leader' held
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US troops in Iraq say they have arrested a suspected leader of a Shia militia group allegedly backed by Iran.
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Nigerian police arrest the leader of a Muslim Shia sect and 100 of his followers after clashes in the northern city of Sokoto.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 29 -- The powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr publicly ordered his huge militia Wednesday to "freeze" operations for up to six months, but U.S. and Iraqi officials expressed skepticism of the cleric's intentions and his ability to control the fractured network of fighters who kill...
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The US military in Iraq says it has captured a suspect in the killing of a Sunni tribal leader in Anbar province.
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BAGHDAD Iraqi officials on Sunday said they had captured a man believed to be Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s inner circle believed to have been at large, following a gunfight at a medical clinic in a town north of Baghdad.
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Iraq has captured an al-Qaida suspect from Tunisia who allegedly bombed a Shiite shrine earlier this year and set off a spasm of sectarian violence, a top security official said Wednesday.
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U.S. forces have captured the leader of  a suspected militant cell during a raid in the northern Iraqi  town of Kirkuk, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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Iraqi officials said Sunday that they had captured a man believed to be Izzat Ibrahim, the most wanted member of Saddam&#39;s Hussein&#39;s inner circle
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BAGHDAD : Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militiamen remained in control of their Najaf mosque stronghold, as fears grew that an Italian journalist missing in Iraq since Thursday was kidnapped.
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Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday he suspected Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia was behind the abduction of five Britons from a government building in Baghdad.
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The shadowy leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida-inspired group that challenged the authority of Iraq's government, was captured Friday in a raid on the western outskirts of Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
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Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear.
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Iraqi officials captured the No. 2 leader of the terrorist group. But will that slow sectarian attacks?
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US marines and a radical Iraqi cleric are locked in a tense standoff after the firebrand leader refused to leave a holy shrine in Najaf despite earlier agreeing to disarm his militia and withdraw.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 3--Iraqi armed forces have arrested the No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the country's national security leader said Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 -- U.S. forces detained the son of one of Iraq's most prominent Shiite politicians for several hours Friday, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq said.
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An Australian man of Lebanese origin has been detained in northern Iraq by Kurdish militiamen and Australian officials are investigating whether the detainee has links to terrorists, Kurdish and Australian officials said Sunday.