Iraq's hard-line Shi'ites vow to resist US agenda
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BAGHDAD -- A vociferous and well-organized faction of extremist Shi'ite Muslims is mobilizing to challenge the new government that emerges from Iraq's recent election and to push for a hard line against the United States.
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Iraq's Kurdish region vowed Friday to fight off any attack as Washington said it was willing to help Baghdad crack down on rebels there to stave off a threatened Turkish incursion.
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Talks to end bitter fighting between US forces and Shiite militants in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City have stalled, with the government refusing
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The White Houseâs strategy calls on diplomats to head to some of Iraqâs most hostile regions, but many refuse to go.
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Iraq's Kurdish leader refuses to meet the US secretary of state over Washington's stance on raids by Turkey.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes have pounded areas near a holy shrine where radical Shi&#39;ite militia are holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
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Iraq wants action not words from a regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday and will urge Iran and the United States not to use it as a playing field to settle their scores, Iraq's foreign minister said on Friday.
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Iraq's Shiite leader was firm, his aides say &#151; he would not talk to President Bush with Jordan's Sunni king listening.
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The U.S.-backed coalition of Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties aims to isolate extremists, officials say.
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Iraq's president rejects a high-level US report calling for changes in American strategy in Iraq.
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A powerful Shi'ite Muslim leader in Iraq called on Friday for U.S.-backed, mainly Sunni neighborhood patrols to be brought under tight government control with a more balanced sectarian makeup.
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Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday told insurgents fighting his U.S.-backed government to accept an olive branch or face a security crackdown that will cover "every inch" of Iraq.
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The Bush administration cautioned Iran on Wednesday against trying to influence the outcome of Iraq's election, reacting to fears that Tehran is trying to produce a Shiite-dominated Islamic government in Baghdad.
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Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr pledges to work with Sunni groups against the US-led occupation.
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Iraq's prime minister will deliver a   blunt message to fellow Shi'ite Islamist leaders in Iran on   Tuesday that they should not interfere in Iraqi affairs.
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Critics say a long-term US military presence may provoke greater Iraqi resistance of the 'occupier.'
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The Shi'ite alliance expected to win a commanding victory in Iraq's election will insist one of its members is appointed the country's next prime minister, a senior official in the alliance said on Saturday.