Iraq shuts down Baghdad with one-day curfew
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Iraq's government shut down the capital with a one-day curfew on Saturday, ordering all cars and pedestrians off the streets, but giving no reason for the measure.
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, searching neighborhoods and setting up checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys.
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Thousands of Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in Kirkuk on Saturday, ordering residents to stay in their homes in an effort to put down violence that has swelled in the north amid efforts to rein in bloodshed in Baghdad.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces on Monday were preparing to launch a major security crackdown in Baghdad to curb sectarian bloodshed as a wave of bombings pushed the country's death toll to more than 1,000 in seven days.
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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's government said on Tuesday it had closed its borders with Syria and Iran and extended the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.- backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital.
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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Baghdad authorities on Monday lifted a three-day curfew imposed on the city after the worst bombing since the U.S. invasion in 2003, but nerves were frayed on fears of a new wave of blood-letting.
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Iraqi forces placed Baghdad under a blanket curfew throughout Saturday after U.S. troops arrested a man suspected of plotting to attack the capital's government compound with suicide car bombings.
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Iraq will close all its borders for five days starting next week, the government said on Thursday, in a move designed to boost security.
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With violence down in Baghdad, U.S. troops will fan out into communities on the rim of the capital to shut down car bomb factories, which remain a threat despite a recent drop in execution-style killings in the city, the U.S. military said Monday.
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Iraq's government said on Tuesday it would close its borders with Syria and Iran and extend the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.- backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital.
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Iraq declared a curfew in Baghdad on Saturday, ordering cars off the streets and telling people to remain in their homes.
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The Iraqi Red Crescent closed all of its Baghdad branches until further notice Monday, a day after gunmen staged a brazen mass kidnapping at the agency's downtown office.
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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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Six car bombs killed 160 people in a Shi'ite stronghold on Thursday in the bloodiest attack in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion and the authorities imposed an indefinite curfew on a city fearful of a sectarian civil war.
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A series of bombs killed at least 43   people in and near Baghdad on Saturday, police said, in one of   the bloodiest days in Iraq since a U.S. military air strike   killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 10 days ago.