Calm Is Broken in Hussein's Home Town
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Saddam Hussein once called this city north of Baghdad home, and the monolithic palaces that line the Tigris River were showplaces of the Iraqi president's power. Two enormous golden statues of Hussein on horseback stood atop a gate to the palace compound. He protected and coddled the largely Sunni Muslim city and made it the political capital of the province.
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While Gaza was mostly calm during the day, several previous cease-fires have broken down.
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Two of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's cousins, who have reportedly fled US troops in Iraq, have been granted asylum in Sweden and are hiding out in a Swedish town, Swedish tabloid Expressen reported on ...
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A spokesman for leading Shia authority Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani tells reporters outside the ailing cleric&#39;s Najaf home that a peaceful resolution to the standoff that has marred the city is within reach.
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Iraqi government forces carried out a series of assaults in Saddam Hussein&#39;s home region yesterday that were followed by conflicting reports that his former right-hand man was captured.
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Appeals for calm by Shiites and Sunnis, as well as American officials in Iraq, appeared to have headed off the risk of a new sectarian convulsion, at least for now.
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When Saddam Hussein was dragged out of a hole in the ground, many expected the insurgency would soon be buried. Monday morning, the skies over Baghdad prove it&#39;s anything but.
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Anger, uncertainty and hopelessness lurk beneath the ominous calm that has settled in Yangon since the uprising last month.
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More than a year after Saddam's ouster, a website hawking real estate in Iraq is seeing something of a mini-bubble. Asking prices in the swankier neighborhoods of Baghdad and Najaf are surging against a backdrop of civil unrest. By Joanna Glasner.
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Conflicting reports have emerged over the situation in the Iraqi city of Najaf. How can peace be forged in the city?
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Tuesday: A Shiite insurgency appeared to be weakening as Iraqi forces moved to within 200 yards of the Imam Ali Shrine. Wednesday: Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric returned home with a peace initiative demanding an end to the fighting in Najaf.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 26 -- Gunfights broke out and mortar shells came crashing down on parts of the capital Sunday despite a three-day-old curfew and appeals for calm from Iraq's top Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political leaders.
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A curfew restores some calm in the Afghan city of Herat, after violent   protests at the sacking of its governor.
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Peace has failed to bring reconciliation in Najaf, a city considered significant to Shi&#39;ite Muslims and where self-declared holy warriors battled US forces last month.
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U.S. soldiers believe the usually violent neighborhood of Ghazaliyah has become quiet  -  too quiet to be comfortable
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The Iraqi capital, on edge for months because of unrelenting violence, has shed its business-as-usual veneer and become a city at war.
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Political and religious leaders in Iraq call for calm after bombers strike one of Shia Islam's holiest sites.