Sadr aide freed as violence continues
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BAGHDAD: The US military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim governmentâs efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections in January.
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Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has emerged from a bloody, two-week showdown with U.S. forces with his militia intact but his heroic image in question.
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The search continues for the body of a British man who was beheaded after an escape bid. BAGHDAD -- Shiite militia loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed yesterday to begin handing in weapons
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Anti-American Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad, a U.S. officials said Tuesday
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TONY EASTLEY: Fighters loyal to Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr have begun handing over their weapons, in a deal designed to end fighting between the militiamen and US-led forces in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City.
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The Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr remained in control of a holy shrine here on Saturday in defiance of the Iraqi government, even as his aides said they were making
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.
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Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fled Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad and the arrival of 21,500 U.S. troops sent by President Bush to quell sectarian violence, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. military released a senior aide to the rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Thursday, and Sadr aides said momentum was growing toward an agreement to disband the cleric's militia, which would halt a major element of the insurgency in Iraq.
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Kidnappers have lifted their threat to kill a U.S. journalist abducted in the southern city of Nasiriyah along with his Iraqi translator, an aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD : An Iranian diplomat was freed after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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DOHA, Aug 22  - US journalist Micah Garen was released by his kidnappers Sunday and was at the office of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr in Iraq&#39;s southern city of Nasiriyah, said a Sadr spokesman.
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The government is expected to stay together despite the walkout of followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, reached an apparent agreement with the radical cleric Muqtada Sadr yesterday to end a three-week uprising by Sadr&#39;s Army of Mehdi militiamen in Najaf.
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The negotiator for the militant Shiite stronghold of Fallujah was freed from US custody today but refused to resume peace talks. Sheik Khaled al-Jumeili said they will remain suspended as a protest against
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A Shiite official says a kidnapped American journalist in Iraq has been released. The kidnappers had threatened Thursday to kill Micah Garen, of New York, within 48 hours if US troops did not leave Najaf.
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Palestinian militants yesterday released an Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN a day after abducting him at gunpoint in the