Local Foes Commit to Peace in Baghdad
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 -- Local Sunni and Shiite leaders from southwestern Baghdad signed an agreement Thursday that is intended to halt sectarian violence and attacks on American and Iraqi troops on the condition that security forces limit their raids and offensive operations.
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Baghdad - Followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday trickled in to police stations in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district to hand in weapons under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant
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At least six people were killed in attacks across Iraq Saturday, while the holy city of Najaf remained calm. Shi&#39;ite militiamen left its Imam Ali shrine earlier this week as part of a deal to end three weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi troops.
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People are reflect in a motorbike&#39;s rearview mirror during prayer in Baghdad&#39;s Shiite enclave of Sadr City Friday, Dec. 24, 2004.
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Sunni and Shia leaders in Iraq agree to a four-point plan aimed at cutting sectarian violence in the country.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunfights broke out and mortars came crashing down on parts of the capital yesterday despite a three-day-old curfew and appeals for calm from Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurdish political leaders.
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Iraqi tribal leaders, Shiite politicians, government officials and U.S. military officers agreed Sunday to a one-day truce for peace talks to end violence in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a day after 10 people ...
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Talks aimed at curbing bloodshed are under way attended by representatives of various groups in Iraq.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces are meeting little resistance as they sweep through Baghdad, a U.S. officer said on Friday, a day after Iraq's president said a Shi'ite militia had ordered its leaders to leave the country.
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Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in Baghdad's Sadr City district to hand in weapons Monday under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold.
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Suicide bombers killed 29 people in Baghdad on Sunday, after a meeting of officials of world powers, Iraq and neighboring states agreed it was vital to all to stop sectarian violence spreading across the region.
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It&#39;s touted as the safest place in Baghdad, but even the thousands of normal Iraqis whose homes wound up in the US-occupied Green Zone want
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A weeklong calm that had taken hold of the Shiite ghetto of Sadr City and raised hopes for a peaceful settlement of the armed standoff there dissolved into gun battles
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Iraq's Kurdish region vowed Friday to fight off any attack as Washington said it was willing to help Baghdad crack down on rebels there to stave off a threatened Turkish incursion.
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Snow in Baghdad for the first time in living memory delights residents who declared it an omen of peace
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Description: Efforts are under way to arrange a ceasefire in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, where militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been battling US forces.
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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.