Iraq Shiite politician prays with Arabs
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Powerful Iraqi Shiite politician Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, headed to the White House next week, made a gesture of reconciliation to Jordan's Sunni Arabs on Friday by praying with them and saying he opposes sectarian killings and the creation of an Iraqi Shiite state loyal to Iran.
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KUWAIT CITY -- Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy appealed for a &quot;civilized dialogue&quot; between religions as he stood inside Kuwait's Grand Mosque at the start of a Middle East visit he hopes will help win the release of two Italian women kidnapped in Iraq.
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Iraq&#39;s most influential Shia cleric, Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani, is in the southern city of Basra and will head to Najaf soon to try to resolve the crisis there, an aide says.
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Some members of the Sunni Muslim minority in Iraq should get positions in the new government after next month's elections to protect their rights, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said Sunday. The senators also said they opposed quotas even as they favored an accommodation between the majority Shiites and the minority Sunnis.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A delegation of Iraqis arrived in Najaf on helicopters Tuesday to present radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr with a peace proposal aimed at ending the violent insurgency wracking the holy city.    The peace proposal, cobbled together Iraq's National Conference in Baghdad, demanded that al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia put down its arms and join Iraq's political process in exchange for amnesty...
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Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked Ashoura, commemorating the death in A.
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Iraq's Sunni vice president held a rare meeting Thursday with the country's top shi'ite cleric to seek support for a 25-point blueprint for political reform
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Iraq's Sunni vice president held a rare meeting Thursday with the country's top Shiite cleric to seek support for a 25-point blueprint for political reform, the latest effort by both Islamic sects to promote unity amid unrelenting violence.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical Shi&#39;ite cleric and Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister made gestures on Friday to defuse a two-week uprising in Najaf, after ferocious US air strikes and heavy fighting killed at least 77 people.
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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraq's most powerful Shiite politician, defended Iran on Tuesday against American allegations that it trained and equipped Shiite militias, and said the U.S. has not provided any proof.
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CAIRO -- The Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers yesterday issued a veiled warning to regional religious leaders against using next month's critical elections in Iraq to create a sectarian, Shi'ite-dominated state.
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The surprise return to Iraq of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country&#39;s most powerful religious leader, may help him win back support eroded by a radical Shi&#39;ite uprising.
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Leaders of the Shiite political alliance that won Iraq's election failed to agree on a single nominee for prime minister Wednesday, with the two candidates insisting on a vote by the alliance's 140 parliamentarians, officials said.
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BASRA, Iraq -- Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who is responsible for bringing democracy to Iraq, got a stirring taste of electoral politics on a recent swing through the impoverished Shi'ite south of the country.
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Iraq&#39;s most respected Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to the country Wednesday and urged all Iraqi Muslims to join him on a march to the
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NAJAF, Iraq - Hoping to end weeks of fighting in Najaf, Iraq's top Shiite cleric unexpectedly returned home from Britain on Wednesday armed with a new peace initiative and a call for Iraqis across the country to march on the holy city to demand an end to the fighting.    Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini Al-Sistani, who wields enormous influence among Shiite Iraqis, had previously declined to get involved in resolving the violent conflicts roiling the nation, and it was unclear why he suddenly changed his mind...
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Iraqi Sunni leader Tariq al-Hashemi holds talks with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shia cleric.