Iraqi leader rejects international talks
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Iraq's president on Sunday rejected suggestions that an international conference be held to address the violence wracking his country, echoing sentiments expressed by other leading politicians.
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Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is in Jordan for meetings with Iraqi Sunni leaders, including some opposed to US-led efforts to build a new Iraqi society.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq&#39;s radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr refused on Tuesday to meet a delegation of Iraqi political and religious leaders seeking to end a rebellion in the holy city of Najaf and other parts of the country.
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President Ghazi Yawer rejects the idea foreign troops may leave before Iraqi  forces are ready to take over.
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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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The idea is backed by the U.N. but is opposed by other Iraqi leaders, among them the countryÂs Kurdish president and Mr. MalikiÂs chief Shiite rival.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, addressing a meeting at which U.S. officials sat down with adversaries from Iran and Syria, urged Iraq's regional rivals on Saturday to stop supporting insurgents in the country.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq&#39;s radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr refused to meet a delegation of Iraqi political and religious leaders in the holy city of Najaf, CNN reported.
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A leading contender to be Iraq's next prime minister says the government should not allow laws that conflict with Islam.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani yesterday rejected a demand by other communities for a delay in nationwide elections scheduled for Jan. 30, in an escalating dispute that magnifies the country's ethnic and sectarian fault lines.
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The chief negotiator for the city of Falluja said Monday that he had called off peace talks with the Iraqi government on the orders of guerrillas who control
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Iraq's prime minister urged regional rivals on Saturday to stop playing out their differences in his country, addressing a meeting at which U.S. officials sat down with adversaries from Iran and Syria.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's radical cleric Moqtada  al-Sadr refused on Tuesday to meet a delegation of Iraqi  political and religious leaders seeking to end a rebellion in  the holy city of Najaf and other parts of the country.
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Iraqi leaders broke a rancorous   stalemate over plans for regional autonomy on Sunday by   agreeing to put off any final decision for at least 18 months   on an issue many fear might tear the country apart in sectarian   civil war.
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AJAF, Iraq, Aug. 18  An Iraqi national conference in Baghdad declined today to send a second delegation to Najaf after the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr refused to meet here on Tuesday with its first peace team, which had tried to end ...
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Prime Minister Maliki scales back a proposal to forgive insurgents. Here's what he is and isn't offering
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 5--Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki on Tuesday called for a regional conference on stabilizing his country but rejected U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's proposal that such a discussion take place outside of Iraq.