Iraq's PM visits insurgent stronghold of Ramadi
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki traveled to the violent city of Ramadi on Tuesday on his first visit to the heartland of Sunni Arab insurgents fighting his U.S.-backed government.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi talks to Hussein al-Sadr (R), a senior Shiite cleric, during a meeting with senior religious leaders in Baghdad Nov. 9. Allawi appealed to militants in Fallujah to lay down
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Also, IraqÂs prime minister was quoted as saying he would call for a regional conference to search for solutions to the violence in Iraq.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad on Tuesday to meet Iraqi  Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for Iraq's  elections scheduled for January.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi arrives in Moscow for the first time since taking office six months ago with hopes of soothing tensions over Russia's opposition to the US-led war in his ravaged nation.
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BASRA, Iraq -- Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who is responsible for bringing democracy to Iraq, got a stirring taste of electoral politics on a recent swing through the impoverished Shi'ite south of the country.
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Iraq's prime minister said today his country's troops are on their way to the northern city of Mosul for a "decisive" confrontation with militants there.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi visits Berlin to secure a German boost for his country's  reconstruction.
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In his first state visit to Iran, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki today asked for support in quelling violence.
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Â· PM-in-waiting will study lessons of Iraq invasionÂ· Chancellor arrives in Basra and Baghdad for talks
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Iraq s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi met on Sunday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for talks likely to be dominated by the need to improve security before Iraq s January elections.
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Iraq's interim prime minister went to Jordan on Tuesday for meetings with tribal figures and other influential Iraqis in a bid to encourage Sunni Muslims to participate in the Jan. 30 elections, but he ruled out contacts with insurgent leaders and former members of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq arrived here today for a meeting with President Bush that will focus on finding a strategy to stop the violence in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived in the war-torn Iraqi capital Baghdad for talks with his counterpart Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani.
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Iraq will spend more on jobs and reconstruction to battle the insurgency in the restive west, but neighboring Syria must clamp down on terrorists crossing the border, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh said Thursday.
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Iraq&#039;s new prime minister promised Sunday to use &quot;maximum force&quot; if necessary to end the brutal insurgent and sectarian violence wracking the country, while a suicide bomber killed more than a dozen people at a restaurant in downtown Baghdad.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki flew to the western city of Ramadi on Tuesday on his first visit to the heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency fighting his U.S.-backed government.