Iraq PM says security forces control holy city
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's prime minister flew to the holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday and declared order had been restored after inter-Shi'ite gunbattles there killed 52 people and sent hundreds of thousands of pilgrims fleeing.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered a "professional and neutral" investigation into the cause of the violence that killed more than 50 people at a religious festival last week.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police fired warning shots and barred vehicle traffic leading to Kufa on Friday, fearing an outbreak of violence as hundreds of worshippers descended on the holy city for the first weekly prayers since radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr relinquished control of its revered shrine under a peace deal.    Separately, France said it had received word that two French reporters held captive in Iraq were alive while one of their employers claimed the kidnappers had handed them over to an Iraqi opposition group, raising hopes that the hostages could soon be released...
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Flanked by machine gun-toting guards, Iraq's prime minister ventured out of the Green Zone to tour parts of Baghdad on Friday, chatting on the streets with bystanders and police to demonstrate the U.S.-led crackdown is making progress in restoring order.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq's military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a U.S.-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks killed hundreds of people in recent days.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday told President Bush he aimed to improve security in Baghdad by targeting "all sources of violence", including insurgents and militias, a White House spokesman said.
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The announcement came even as IraqÂs prime minister said his countryÂs forces can take charge of security by next June.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi security forces tightened  their grip on the streets around a sacred shrine in Najaf  Tuesday after the government warned Shi'ite rebels inside they  would be killed if they did not surrender.
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Iraq's prime minister on Saturday said his government would provide any necessary security for an expanded United Nations presence in his country, stressing that the "Baghdad of today is different from the Baghdad of yesterday."
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Security cannot be truly established in Iraq until the country's own police, armed forces and other security organisations are firmly in place, Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih said.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other high ranking officials sought to reassure Iraqis after Fridayâs pet market bombings.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed around 400 suspected militants since the start of a major security crackdown in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday his government had stopped Iraq sliding into civil war and said violence in and around Baghdad had plunged under a U.S.-backed security crackdown.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi issued a "final call" Thursday to Shiite insurgents to disarm and withdraw from a revered shrine after his government threatened a massive onslaught by Iraqi forces. As a peace deal for Najaf unraveled, militants bombarded a police station with mortar rounds, killing seven police and injuring 31 others...
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Uniformed gunmen kidnapped people from computer stores in Baghdad on Monday as the prime minister, racing to avert civil war, presented a plan to halt sectarian violence by forming local committees and controlling the media.
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Iraq's prime minister vowed on Saturday that attacks by two female bombers which killed 99 people in Baghdad would not derail improved security, but angry residents demanded the government do more to protect them.