Militants get amnesty before Mideast talks
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Israel has agreed to remove 178 Palestinian militants from its watch list after the armed fugitives signed a pledge renouncing attacks against Israel and accepted the principles of the group's new West Bank-based interim government.
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The militant group is poised to sponsor candidates in legislative and municipal elections expected later next year.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A militant group linked to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction announced yesterday it is ready to stop violence if Israel halts military operations, and Israeli officials indicated that they are considering the idea.
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A Hamas leader said the militant Islamic group could accept creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza and a long-term truce with Israel, signaling
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The Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said Saturday they were adhering to a de facto truce with Israel, but stopped short of committing to the official cease-fire that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed on at their summit.
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Kabul - Militants who have threatened to kill three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan were due to open talks with government negotiators on Sunday, raising hopes for a peaceful solution to the 10-day-old crisis.
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In talks with some groups, the US aims to convince Shiite militias that political reconciliation, not violence, is the way forward.
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After a series of bloody clashes in its border regions, Pakistan on Thursday again offered amnesty to foreign militants, but vowed to defeat them by force if they didn't lay down their weapons.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday he held private meetings with representatives of insurgent groups from the restive cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, and Samarra to persuade them to accept an amnesty offer.
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Iraq's interim prime minister Iyad  Allawi has held private meetings with Iraqi insurgents in an  effort to persuade them to accept a government amnesty offer,  The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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A ceasefire between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel took effect on Sunday after five months of bloodshed in the coastal strip, raising the possibility of moribund Middle East peacemaking being revived.
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Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi will meet Abukar Omar Adan, a top financial backer of the ousted Islamic Courts movement, on Friday in Djibouti to encourage its fighters to accept a government amnesty.
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Iraq&#039;s prime minister said Wednesday that several insurgent groups have shown a willingness for reconciliation, but that any amnesty for insurgents would exclude militants who killed American forces or Iraqis.
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The ruling Hamas militant group said on   Thursday a statement by the Quartet of Middle East peace   mediators was a sign of progress that could lead to the easing   of a Western aid embargo.
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Somalia's government offers an amnesty to members of the Islamist movement ousted from power last December.
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Palestinian leaders tried on Monday to negotiate an end to a bloody standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants who have been holed up in a refugee camp for more than a week.
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Iraq's interim prime minister said that he had held private meetings with representatives of insurgent groups from Fallujah, Ramadi and Samarra to  persuade them to accept a government amnesty offer.