Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling
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BAGHDAD, June 10 -- A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter, according to an Anbar tribal leader and a U.S. military official familiar with tribal...
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Negotiations between the interim Iraqi government and insurgent leaders who control Fallujah have broken down, officials say.
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In the year since insurgents ripped a hole in one of Iraqâs most sacred Shiite shrines, there has been no rebuilding and no healing.
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Doubts about holding Iraqi national elections on Jan. 30 produced an alliance few believed possible &#151; Sunni Arabs and Sunni Kurds united in calling for a delay. Less than 24 hours later, the alliance collapsed after Shiite Arabs made clear they would not accept any postponement.
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Around 250 Islamic militants and 60 troops have been killed in just over a month of fighting in Pakistan&#39;s tribal belt, the army said Friday, following intense US pressure to pacify the area.
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Sheik Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi is a leader of a Sunni Arab tribe that is fighting, at least for now, on the side of the Shiite-led Iraqi government and the American military.
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Tribes in one of Iraq's most volatile provinces have joined together to fight the insurgency there, and they have called on the government and the U.S.-led military coalition for weapons, a prominent tribal leader said Monday.
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Growing impatience with the slow pace of work to improve basic services like electricity and water could threaten security gains in Iraq's Anbar province, a former al Qaeda stronghold, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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Iraq&#39;s fragile political settlement appeared to be on the brink of collapse last night, with Sunnis, Shias and Kurds divided over whether elections can take place in January as planned.
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Pro-Taliban militants in a Pakistan tribal border region with Afghanistan said Sunday they had scrapped a controversial peace accord reached with the government last year.
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should brace for even more losses as they pursue insurgents bent on wrecking an election scheduled for January. personnel have died here in the first three and half weeks of the month.
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A key leader of an alliance of Sunni Arab tribes that was instrumental in pushing al Qaeda out of Iraq's western Anbar province was killed in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday, police said.
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The leadership of the protest effort is deeply fractured, and the many groups are poorly coordinated and under no central control.
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Pakistanâs premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s.
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The U.S.-backed government of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is losing serious ground, poll shows.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Two years after helping to bring to power a government led by Shiite religious parties, Iraq's paramount Shiite clerics find their influence diminished as their followers criticize them for backing a political alliance that has failed to pass crucial legislation, improve basic...
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The razor-thin margin apparently captured by the Shiite alliance seems almost certain to enshrine a weak government that will be unable to push through sweeping changes.