Shiite Lawmakers End Boycott of Iraqi Parliament
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BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The political bloc of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ended its month-long boycott of the Iraqi parliament, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday, a political advance amid sectarian violence that included the slaying of 29 Shiites overnight by men dressed in military uniforms.
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Under the stewardship of the country's most powerful religious figure, Iraq's fractured Shiite Muslim majority has closed ranks and produced a unified list of candidates for the parliamentary elections set for Jan. 30.
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Iraq's politicians are trying to stitch together a new majority alliance in parliament that would leave Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in power and freeze out backers of a powerful Shiite cleric who is leading a political standoff, officials said Thursday.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shiite political groups agreed Wednesday to unite under a single banner, a move that could help them win a dominant share of votes in the coming national elections.
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Iraq's acting parliamentary speaker urged political blocs on Thursday to end their boycott of the legislature to help push through vital laws that would help ease sectarian tension between Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs.
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BAGHDAD, March 7 -- A small Shiite political party on Wednesday pulled out of the governing Shiite parliamentary bloc that put Iraq's prime minister in power.
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Leaders of the Shiite political alliance that won Iraq's election failed to agree on a single nominee for prime minister Wednesday, with the two candidates insisting on a vote by the alliance's 140 parliamentarians, officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite  religious authority has agreed a "very positive" deal with  rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a three-week uprising by  Sadr's militiamen in the holy city of Najaf, police said  Thursday.
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab political bloc will end its boycott of the country's Shi'ite-dominated parliament, officials said on Thursday.
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Iraqi delegates to a conference choosing a national assembly said Wednesday that radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had agreed to government demands to end an uprising in the holy city of Najaf.
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Ayatollah Murtada al-Askari, a founding member of Iraq's Shiite Dawa party, which was banned under Saddam Hussein but now is the ruling Iraqi party, died Sunday in Iran, the party said.
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Iraq&#39;s most revered Shiite religious authority has agreed Thursday a &quot;very positive&quot; deal with rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a three-week uprising in the holy city of Najaf, as tensions were inflamed by attacks on Shiite marchers that killed at
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc will end its boycott of the Shi'ite-dominated parliament, officials said on Thursday, in a positive sign for the country's faltering attempts at national reconciliation.
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The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday which could see thousands of prisoners freed, one of the main demands of Sunni Arab politicians boycotting the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad.
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Iraq's parliament passed a law on Saturday to let members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party return to public life, winning Washington's swift praise for meeting a benchmark aimed at reconciling warring sects.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's interim government said it  had defused a Shi'ite rebellion in Najaf Friday without a shot  being fired, but rebel militiamen denied police had seized the  city's sacred Imam Ali Mosque from their control.
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The political bloc of fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Tuesday it had resumed participation in Iraq's parliament, suspended last month in protest over an attack on a revered Shi'ite mosque.