Iraq to Close Borders Next Week to Thwart Attacks
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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.
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Iraq on Tuesday pledged to crack down on Kurdish separatists carrying out attacks on Turkey from hideouts in the mountains of northern Iraq in a bid to avert a Turkish military incursion onto its territory to hit the rebels.
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Insurgents in Iraq threatened on  Tuesday to kill eight Chinese hostages as Baghdad officials  said they would close land borders and restrict traffic across  the country in a bid to thwart attacks during next week's  election.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said his government will send envoys to neighboring countries to pave the way for a regional conference on ending Iraq's rampant violence, which yesterday killed more than 40 people.
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Turkey moves a step closer to cross-border raids against Kurdish PKK fighters in Iraq. But it would prefer that Iraqi authorities shut down the separatists
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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.
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Iraq said on Tuesday it would shut down the operations of Kurdish rebels based on its soil, hoping to head off a threatened invasion to crush them by Turkish troops massed on the border.
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Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that efforts to improve security in his country include plans to disband all militias and stop the flow of militants across the border.
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In the coming weeks, the U.S. and Iraq's government must still combat a resilient and dangerous insurgency outside Falluja.
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Â· Iraqi president says PKK set to announce ceasefireÂ· Ankara intensifies military operations near border
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Developments concerning Iraq on Thursday:
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U.S. and Iraqi security forces launched attacks Thursday to flush out insurgents in northern Iraq, the military and Iraqi officials said.
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Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari urged Iraq's neighbors Sunday to prevent ''terrorists and killers'' from crossing into his country and warned that the violence in Iraq could spill across its borders into other nations.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq's military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a U.S.-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks killed hundreds of people in recent days.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has closed Baghdad&#39;s international airport and the country&#39;s borders with Syria and Jordan, and declared a curfew in rebel- held Fallujah
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Iraq will close its land borders from  Jan. 29 to 31 and impose a curfew banning all non-official  vehicles from the roads over the same period to try to prevent  attacks on election day, officials said on Tuesday.
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Iraq's government said on Sunday it was taking important steps to end what it called the "terrorist actions" of Kurdish rebels who use its mountainous north as a base for attacks on neighboring Turkey.