Al-Sadr Demands Ceasefire in Najaf Before Disarming, Sky Says
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al- Sadr demanded a cease-fire before he disarms his supporters in the holy city of Najaf, Sky News said, citing unidentified reports.
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BAGHDAD: Shia leader Moqtada Al Sadr on Monday ordered a nationwide ceasefire and announced his militant movement would join the political mainstream, his aides said.
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NAJAF, IRAQ - Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr faces an Iraqi offensive on his Najaf stronghold within hours, despite his apparent agreement to lay down arms, Iraqi cabinet officials said Thursday.
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Iraq's prime minister issues a "final call" to cleric Moqtada Sadr to end the stand-off in Najaf as new clashes erupt.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's government warned Shi'ite  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday he would face a military  strike within hours unless he ended an uprising, disarmed his  militia and quit a shrine in the city of Najaf.
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Iraq&#39;s Defence Ministry has ordered Shiite militiamen in Najaf to immediately lay down their weapons and leave a holy shrine.
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Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr signaled that he would accept pleas to dissolve his militia and vacate the sacred Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, but asked for time for further negotiations.
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NAJAF - Rebel cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr yesterday ordered his fighters to lay down their weapons and leave the Shi&#39;ite holy city of Najaf and neighbouring Kufa, effectively ending three weeks of fighting between his militia and US and Iraqi government forces
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  on Friday ordered his men inside Najaf's Imam Ali mosque to lay  down their weapons and join thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims  outside the shrine.
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A top aide to Iraq&#39;s rebel Shi&#39;ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr Monday called on the Mehdi Army militia to cease fire across Iraq and said Sadr was preparing to announce plans for a major political program.
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NAJAF, Aug 17: An Iraqi peace delegation urged Shia leader Moqtada Sadr on Tuesday to call off his uprising in Najaf, and on the battlefront US troops pounded militia positions near the country&#39;s holiest sites.
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A five-point ceasefire proposal accepted on Thursday by the interim Iraqi Government and Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is expected to put a hold on the three-week-old battle between rebels and US-Iraqi forces in the holy city of Najaf.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq
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NAJAF, Iraq  - An Iraqi peace delegation urged a  radical Shi'ite cleric Tuesday to call off his uprising in the  city of Najaf where U.S. troops pounded militia positions near  the country's holiest Islamic sites.
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Negotiations over the embattled city of Najaf took a new and complicated turn Thursday when an official of Iraq's interim government issued fresh demands to be met by rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, accompanied by warnings of an imminent military offensive at the shrine where Sadr's militia is holed up.
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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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NAJAF, IraqUS warplanes pounded areas near a shrine where radical Shiite militiamen were holed up early today after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.