Iraq PM urges start to Baghdad crackdown
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki complained Tuesday the long-awaited Baghdad security operation was off to a slow start and warned that insurgents are taking advantage of the delay to kill as many people as possible.
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Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki announces the start of a major offensive against al-Qaeda militants in Mosul.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday told President Bush he aimed to improve security in Baghdad by targeting "all sources of violence", including insurgents and militias, a White House spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq&#39;s prime minister says his forces &quot;will not be lenient&quot; in a crackdown on Fallujah if the city doesn&#39;t turn over a notorious Jordanian militant.
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Politicians must start to bear responsibility for the spiralling violence in Iraq, the country's prime minister says.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has ordered an investigation into last week's U.S.-Iraqi raid of a major Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad, his office said Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on former members of Saddam Hussein's disbanded army to join Iraq's new security forces in an effort to restore peace to the war-racked country.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has declared martial law and says a US-led military offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja could not be delayed much longer.
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The attacks came as Iraq's prime minister announced he would reveal a plan for an accelerated build-up of Iraqi forces.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to lend support to the Iraqi government, which is under pressure from Washington to do more to stem worsening violence.
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Iraq's PM vows to end attacks like Saturday's deadly truck bomb in Baghdad which killed more than 130 people.
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Flanked by machine gun-toting guards, Iraq's prime minister ventured out of the Green Zone to tour parts of Baghdad on Friday, chatting on the streets with bystanders and police to demonstrate the U.S.-led crackdown is making progress in restoring order.
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Iraq's prime minister urged regional rivals on Saturday to stop using Iraq as a battlefield to fight out their proxy wars, addressing a meeting at which U.S. officials sat down with adversaries from Iran and Syria.
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Iraq's PM calls for an inquiry into a raid by Iraqi and British forces on an intelligence agency detention centre in Basra.
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Prime Minister Maliki says he will focus on fighting insurgents, disarming party militias.
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BAGHDAD, Nov 7  - Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Iraq to combat spiralling violence as 21 police officers were shot dead execution-style in a dawn ambush on their stations.
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Iraq's prime minister Monday touted his government's efforts in thwarting "sectarian war" and acknowledged that Iraqi troops are not yet ready to fully take over security duties from the U.S.-led coalition.