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Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
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Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr reportedly agrees to end an uprising in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. military released a senior aide to the rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Thursday, and Sadr aides said momentum was growing toward an agreement to disband the cleric's militia, which would halt a major element of the insurgency in Iraq.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite  religious authority has agreed a "very positive" deal with  rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a three-week uprising by  Sadr's militiamen in the holy city of Najaf, police said  Thursday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical Iraqi cleric leading a  Shi'ite uprising agreed on Wednesday to disarm his militia and  leave one of the country's holiest Islamic shrines after  warnings of an onslaught by government forces.
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BAGHDAD, 10 October 2004 - Iraqâs interim government and the militia of Shi&#39;i cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr sealed a peace deal yesterday as delegates from Fallujah said the city wanted to vote in scheduled elections in January.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most respected Muslim cleric, returned to this beleaguered city yesterday and persuaded rebel leader Moqtada al-Sadr to end a bloody three-week standoff with US and Iraqi government forces.
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Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders sign a deal aimed at curbing sectarian violence, Iraq's prime minister says.
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Iraqi rebel cleric Moqtada al Sadr has officially handed control of the Imam Ali shrine in the city of Najaf to representatives of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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Snow, Powell and Iraqâs Finance Minister Adil Abdul al-Mahdi signed the agreement in a ceremony at the State Department. &#39;Second liberation&#39; Al-Mahdi thanked the US government and its people, describing
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Shi&#39;ite militia fighters backing the radical Iraqi cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, are handing in weapons at the start of a deal with the Iraqi interim Government to end months of violence.
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reached an agreement with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that grants his freedom from murder charges and secures peace in war-torn Najaf, al-Sistani aides said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD: The US military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim governmentâs efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections in January.
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A senior aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has been released from US detention, an aide to Sadr, Sheikh Mahmoud Sudani, says.
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The move marked a major agreement among the countryâs ethnic and sectarian political blocs on one of Iraqâs most divisive issues.
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An Iraqi official says a deal was struck with the Mahdi Army to ensure a safe departure.
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BAGHDAD Militiamen loyal to the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr surrendered hundreds of weapons Monday, in what appeared to be an encouraging first step in a deal with the Iraqi government and the American military to end months of fighting in the eastern