Iraq plans countrywide arms amnesty
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Iraq will announce a nationwide arms amnesty next week, National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said today. He told Reuters the move was aimed at stopping the flow of arms to the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a stronghold of Shiite militants.
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Poland will hand over another part of the zone it administers in Iraq under a planned reduction of its forces next year, Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said in an interview published Friday.
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Iraq's interim prime minister Iyad  Allawi has held private meetings with Iraqi insurgents in an  effort to persuade them to accept a government amnesty offer,  The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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Iraq's parliament agreed on Monday to   set up a body to draft constitutional changes, a key part of a   breakthrough deal reached by the country's factions to end   political paralysis and avoid civil war.
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Some 100 members of the Iranian antiregime group have left a holding camp in Iraq in recent weeks. Iran says amnesty offer holds.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans yesterday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shi'ite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country.
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Iraq's prime minister announced a broad plan to halt militia killings on Monday, as mass kidnaps by men in uniform and dozens of tortured bodies found in Baghdad fueled fears of all-out sectarian civil war.
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LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January  despite a surge in violence across the country.
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Iraq's prime minister says an arms-for-cash scheme that started in Baghdad last week will be extended to other areas.
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A radical Shiite militia agreed on Saturday to hand in weapons and suspend attacks against US and Iraqi forces, as the government has tried to use carrots and sticks to curb a mounting insurgency throughout the country.
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Iraq's interim government will declare  a nationwide arms amnesty next week, but insists the city of  Falluja must turn in foreign militants or face assault,  National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said Monday.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi publicly acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that parts of Iraq probably won't be safe enough for people to vote in the Jan. 30 elections, and he announced plans to boost the size of the country's army from 100,000 to 150,000 men by year's end.
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Iraq will close its borders with Iran and Syria for up to three days as part of its new security plan for Baghdad.
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Iraq wants to tighten control over security contractors after a deadly shooting involving the US firm Blackwater, ending their long immunity from Iraqi prosecution, the Interior Ministry said yesterday.
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Iraq plans to close its borders with Iran and Syria for 72 hours in an attempt to secure the capital, the Iraqi commander in charge of Baghdad's security plan announced Tuesday.
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Syria and Iraq signed on to a plan Monday to cooperate in combating terrorism and crime, the official SUNA Syrian news agency said.
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Monday he will roll out an arms-for-cash programme across the country to clean up the streets ahead of elections promised by January, and pledged an urgent aid package for the battle-scarred city of