Iraq to Close Borders Next Week to Thwart Attacks
96068
Iraq will seal its borders next week to  prevent Shi'ite pilgrims flooding into the country, the  government said Thursday, in the latest emergency measure  intended to thwart insurgent violence.
31745
Iraq will close its borders with Iran and Syria for up to three days as part of its new security plan for Baghdad.
290657
BAGHDAD, Oct. 23 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed Tuesday to halt the activities of Kurdish separatists staging strikes into Turkey from northern Iraq, marking his government's strongest declaration yet that it would act to forestall a Turkish invasion.
144677
Iraq announced plans on Tuesday to close its borders with Iran and Syria and lengthen a night curfew on vehicles in new emergency measures to try to curb unrelenting violence in Baghdad.
112805
Palestinian security forces will be deployed along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel this week.
726147
Iraqi forces will take over security in a southern province from coalition troops next month, state-run television quoted the prime minister as saying Thursday.
122064
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.
695802
The violence occurred on a day when Iraqi officials announced a plan to take over operational command of IraqÂs army from the U.S. next week.
496032
Officials agreed Thursday on cooperative border measures to halt attacks on Israeli towns.
556424
Iraq will seal its borders next week to prevent Shi'ite pilgrims flooding into the country, the government said Thursday, in the latest emergency measure intended to thwart insurgent violence.
239744
The United States plans to impose sanctions, most likely this week, on an Iranian Qods force member for stoking violence in Iraq as well as on several Iraqi exiles in Syria and Iran, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
24857
JEDDAH/BRUSSELS, 7 November 2004 - Iraq is determined to âflush outâ the insurgents and their foreign allies from their last remaining hideouts well ahead of next Januaryâs elections, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview
557472
Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the city to reduce some of the violence plaguing the capital, the Interior Ministry said Friday.
517341
Exclusive: Leaders of Iraqi groups say attacks will go on until Americans leave.
84607
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.
428385
In the coming weeks, the U.S. and Iraq's government must still combat a resilient and dangerous insurgency outside Falluja.
278436
BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced yesterday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran and ordered the return of unlawfully seized homes, as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital along sectarian lines.