Iraq rebels 'leave Najaf shrine'
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Rebels loyal to Moqtada Sadr leave Najaf's Imam Ali shrine after making a deal with Iraq's top Shia cleric, reports say.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi issued a "final call" Thursday to Shiite insurgents to disarm and withdraw from a revered shrine after his government threatened a massive onslaught by Iraqi forces. As the peace deal for Najaf unraveled, militants bombarded a police station with mortar rounds, killing seven police and injuring 31 others...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - The leader of a Shi&#39;ite uprising in Iraq agreed Wednesday to leave a holy shrine encircled by US marines, hours after the interim government threatened to storm it and drive out his fighters.
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Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr reportedly agrees to end an uprising in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister has issued a &quot;final call&quot; for Shiite militants in the city of Najaf to leave a shrine they have been occupying for weeks. The statement comes a day after their leader, radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, sent word that he was ...
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Militants loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said yesterday they had handed over the keys to a revered Muslim shrine in the holy city of Najaf to top Shiite religious leaders, a move that marks a crucial step towards ending two weeks of fighting.
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NAJAF, Aug. 27. - Militants filed out of the revered Imam Ali Shrine and turned its keys over to representatives of Iraqâs top Shiâite cleric today following a peace agreement to end three weeks of fighting in this holy city.
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Iraqi police took control of the Imam  Ali Mosque in the holy city of Najaf on Friday after entering  the shrine and finding that militia loyal to a radical cleric  had left, the Interior Ministry said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Thousands of chanting Iraqi  Shi'ites entered a sacred shrine in Najaf on Friday where they  were greeted by rebels who overnight reached a peace agreement  to end a bloody three-week uprising.
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Calm reigned in Najaf Friday, as Shi&#39;ite militants abandoned the holy Imam Ali shrine in accordance with a peace deal brokered by Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Delegates at Iraq's National Conference called Monday for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf...
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A firebrand Iraqi Islamic cleric is reported to have agreed to withdraw his armed militia from around the city of Najaf. The news came as a conference chose a national council to oversee the workings of the Iraqi interim government.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical Iraqi cleric leading a  Shi'ite uprising agreed Wednesday to disarm his militia and  leave one of the country's holiest Islamic shrines after  warnings of an onslaught by government forces.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi security forces moved to  within 400 meters (yards) of a holy shrine in Najaf on Tuesday,  just hours after the government warned Shi'ite rebels inside  they would be killed if they did not surrender.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared yesterday he is prepared to withdraw his fighters occupying the revered Imam Ali shrine, a step that could end the two-week-old battle in Najaf. But al-Sadr&#39;s aides said talks ...
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Iraq&#39;s Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, left the southern Iraqi city of Basra early on Thursday on his way to the troubled central city of Najaf, where he hopes to bring an end to fighting between US forces and supporters of rebel
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Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his fighters to lay down arms and leave the holy city of Najaf. It follows a deal brokered by Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric that ended weeks of violence.