Mortars Mark Opening of Iraqi Political Conference
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Insurgents fired mortars at a meeting where Iraqi leaders met to pick an interim national assembly Sunday, killing at least two people in a grim reminder of the country's tortuous path toward democracy.
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Security in Iraq was the focus of the first US-Iran talks in nearly 30 years on Monday.
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Delegates come together to choose candidates that will form a delegation to meet Moqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to ask him to stop fighting and join the political process instead during Iraq&#39;s National Conference, August 16, 2004. AP ...
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Halting violent sectarian strife in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, will dominate President Bush's summit with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki next week in the Middle East.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Basra on Wednesday in a bid to stem escalating violence in the southern city.
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More than 1,100 Iraqis convened for the start of a conference aimed at selecting a national assembly, but the meeting was roiled by a dispute over the use of military force to confront militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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The most striking images of Iraqis as they participate in the country's first multiparty elections for decades.
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A regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday aims to rally support behind the Iraqi government and map out ways to cooperate in easing the country's bloody conflict. But the participants are coming in with starkly different agendas. The session gathers diplomats from Iraq's Arab neighbors as well as Iran, Turkey, the United States and the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
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As religious and political leaders met in Baghdad yesterday to discuss the selection of a 100-member interim assembly, a few kilometres away seven people were killed and 47 injured when a mortar shell exploded in a busy street.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's national conference sent a delegation bearing a peace proposal to Najaf on Tuesday, hoping to end the standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which has marred the gathering meant to be a landmark step toward democracy.    As the National Conference in Baghdad put together the mission, a mortar round exploded several miles from the gathering's venue, killing seven people and wounding wounding 35, according to the Health Ministry...
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A national conference, hailed as Iraq's first brush with democracy in decades, is a significant step along the road to reconciliation and a peaceful future for all Iraqis, according to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
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Iraq's domestic soccer league kicked  off Wednesday for the first time since American-led forces  invaded the country to oust dictator Saddam Hussein.
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A number of mortars are fired into Iraq's Green Zone, where the parliament and foreign embassies are based.
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The interim Iraqi national assembly convened for the first time today as Iraq took a small and tentative step toward representative government.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi joined the race for Iraq's Jan. 30 elections at a Wednesday news conference meant to highlight his appeal to Iraq's diverse and sometimes fractious ethnic and religious groups.
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Delegates from across Iraq gathered today in Baghdad at a three-day national conference intended to bring a taste of democratic debate to the country.
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Iraqi political and religious leaders  resumed meeting on Wednesday to select an interim national  assembly after a row the day before over who should be on it  forced a postponement.