Rough start for Sistani peace bid
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They came by the thousands, these unarmed Shiite demonstrators, answering the call of their spiritual leader to witness a peace
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Iraq's parliament might take a week to start debating a key draft oil law, officials said on Wednesday, as complaints from Shi'ite and Sunni Arab politicians and Kurdish authorities signaled its passage could be rocky.
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Iraq&#39;s fragile political settlement appeared to be on the brink of collapse last night, with Sunnis, Shias and Kurds divided over whether elections can take place in January as planned.
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The escalating violence throughout Iraq poses a challenge to the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
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In elections Wednesday, President Saleh faces his first significant challenge in 28 years.
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Iraq's parliament might take a week to start debating a landmark draft oil law, officials said on Wednesday, as complaints from Kurdish authorities and Sunni Arab politicians signaled its passage could be rocky.
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More than two dozen Iraqis were killed and many more wounded Thursday in two separate assaults hours before Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, arrived in this holy city to lead the march for peace they were planning to attend.
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Explosions and gunfire shook Najaf&#39;s Old City on Sunday in a fierce battle between US forces and Shiite militants, as negotiations dragged on
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Talks to end fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City have stalled, with the government refusing militant demands for American troops to keep out of the troubled district, negotiators for the militants said Wednesday...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A national political conference&#39;s bid to end the fighting in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf appeared to have failed Tuesday.
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For Abdelkarim Hashem, Shi&#39;ite SCIRI representative and current Iraqi ambassador in Moscow, the peaceful invasion of Najaf by Al Sistani supporters is the expression of &quot;a plebiscite
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On a day heralded as a new beginning for Iraq, many Iraqis were divided on whether the newly inaugurated national unity government will be able to curtail sectarian violence in the country.
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At the beginning of this week the interim Iraqi government and US occupation forces were hoping to reach a peaceful solution to clashes that have continued for monthsin the
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi speaks to a joint session of Congress Thursday as an increasingly violent insurgency complicates his country&#39;s plans for its first Democratic elections.
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All sides can claim partial victory in the Najaf crisis' resolution. Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has proven his power by securing a peace deal, and renegade Muqtada al-Sadr has escaped with his militia movement intact.
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NAJAF, Iraq, August 25.âThe Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called on Iraqis to go to the sacred city of Najaf to expel the US troops and save it from attacks by the occupying forces, stated Hamad Al-Jaffaf, head of his cabinet, on Al Arabiya television
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The effort has been hampered by halfhearted support and occasionally outright resistance from a Shiite-dominated national government.