Philippine Muslim rebel groups agree to reconcile
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The Philippines' two main Muslim separatist groups have agreed to resolve differences and work together for peace and growth in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic country, a rebel spokesman said on Friday.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions agreed at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia on Thursday on the formation of a unity government, an official said.
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Philippine troops exchanged heavy  gunfire with Muslim rebels on the southern island of Mindanao  on Monday, breaking a 17-month cease-fire just weeks before  peace talks hosted by Malaysia were due to restart.
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MALACAÃANG on Friday assured the public that the government is willing to remove all hindrances to ensure that peace negotiations with the countryâs largest Muslim separatist group would push through.
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The Philippines' chief negotiator with Muslim separatists has resigned, sources in the government and rebel peace panels said on Saturday, raising doubts about the resumption of talks in Malaysia next month.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leaders agreed yesterday to establish a unity government including the moderate Fatah party to replace the administration led by the Islamic militant group Hamas, a step that Palestinians hope will lead to the lifting of an international funding freeze that has crippled the government since Hamas took office in March.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- Negotiators in Afghanistan said Tuesday they had reached agreement on a deal that will allow 19 South Korean church volunteers to go free after six weeks in Taliban captivity, apparently ending a hostage crisis that has gripped both nations, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- South Korean negotiators and Taliban leaders have reached an agreement that will allow for the release of 19 hostages from a South Korean church who have been held captive by Afghan insurgents for nearly six weeks, officials in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
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Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos, who secured a peace deal with Muslim separatist rebels in 1996, called for a truce on Monday to end eight days of clashes on a remote southern island with two groups of militants.
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The Philippine army battles Muslim rebels it says are making a "last stand" on the southern island of Jolo.
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Somalia's interim government and a rival Islamist militia agree in principle to establish a national army.
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal   Arroyo said on Tuesday that troops were on the verge of wiping   out the country's most violent Muslim rebel group as one   soldier was killed and 24 wounded in fresh clashes.
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Five Darfur rebel groups agreed on Saturday to unite ahead of possible peace talks to end a four-year conflict in the region which so far has defied resolution, in part because of fractious rebel groups.
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Philippine communist rebels freed Wednesday two soldiers they had held as "prisoners of war" for more than five months, saying they wanted to rebuild confidence in peace talks with the government.
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MANILA The Philippine government promised Friday to remove &quot;roadblocks&quot; in its peace negotiations with Islamic insurgents in the southern Philippines, paving the way for the resumption of talks, officials said Friday.
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The Philippines' largest Islamic separatist group will not return to peace talks, unless Manila honors a previous pledge to create a Muslim homeland in the south, the rebels' chief negotiator said on Monday.
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Representatives from the Philippine government, the country's oldest Muslim rebel group and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) will meet in Saudi Arabia in July to try and salvage a key peace deal.