Peacekeepers in S. Ossetia will disarm militia
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TSKHINVALI. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Russian peacekeepers deployed in South Ossetia plan to collect weapons from militia units in Ossetian and Georgian villages in the self-proclaimed republic.
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A Shi'ite militia led by Moqtada  al-Sadr agreed on Saturday to disarm under a deal that could  pacify a Baghdad flashpoint and remove one obstacle to Iraq's  plan to hold nationwide elections in January.
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Declaring that peace had been restored in part of Pakistan&#39;s restive tribal areas, Pakistani military officials have announced that their troops will abandon
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Northern Ireland&#39;s largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defense Association, announced Sunday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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The Afghan government is  tracking the country's private militias with international  help, and hopes to begin disarming them before parliamentary  elections, a U.N. official said on Monday.
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Three Georgian peacekeepers were killed in overnight shooting in South Ossetia, officials said Wednesday, while Russia scoffed at Georgia's appeal for foreign mediation in the breakaway region where daily exchanges of gunfire have stoked fears of war.
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Georgia has begun pulling its troops out of the conflict zone in South Ossetia and plans to hand over its control to a joint pace keeping force.
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Russia said Saturday it will suspend participation in a key European arms control treaty, halting NATO inspections of its military sites and no longer limiting the numbers of its tanks and other heavy conventional weapons.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian security forces  intend to disarm militant factions as part of a plan to prevent  attacks on Israelis, a senior Palestinian security official  said on Tuesday.
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Palestinian security forces intend to disarm militant factions as part of a plan to prevent attacks on Israelis, a senior Palestinian security official said Tuesday.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Georgia&#39;s withdrawal of its soldiers after an advance into the breakaway region of South Ossetia sends the ``right signal&#39;&#39; toward ending their standoff peacefully, the US State Department said.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - A gun battle between rival  forces meant to be keeping the peace in Georgia's separatist  province of South Ossetia killed two Georgian soldiers Monday  and dashed a short-lived cease-fire.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered security forces to block the borders of the North Ossetia region after the school siege ended.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin ordered the borders of North Ossetia closed Saturday as security forces searched the southern region for militants who escaped the Russian storming of a school where they had held hundreds of people hostage, many who fled the building under fire. Officials said at least 250 people were killed, mostly children...
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LIMA, Peru  - Rebels who laid siege to a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the president's resignation decided to surrender  their weapons Tuesday, a government statement said.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- At least three Georgian servicemen have been killed and seven wounded in rebel South Ossetia as the central government in Tbilisi tries to bring to bring the breakaway ethnic region back under government control.
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Former militia leaders and residents in northern Afghanistan have been stockpiling weapons in violation of disarmament laws.