A 'Truce' Between U.S. Enemies in Iraq
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A purported cease-fire between al-Qaeda and Iraq's leading Sunni insurgent group could be bad news for the U.S.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies launched crackdowns Thursday against anti-government forces in widely separated parts of the country, sending warplanes against insurgent strongholds in two cities and restoring Iraqi state control in a third...
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 -- Local Sunni and Shiite leaders from southwestern Baghdad signed an agreement Thursday that is intended to halt sectarian violence and attacks on American and Iraqi troops on the condition that security forces limit their raids and offensive operations.
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Iran and Syria, long accused of enabling the violence in Iraq, are showing new interest in finding an end to the disorder.
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The U.S. military is working more aggressively to forge cease-fires with Iraqi militants and quell the violence around Baghdad, judging that 80 percent of enemy combatants are "reconcilable," a top U.S. commander said Thursday.
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The Bush administration says it's not going soft on Iran, but Washington's new agreement to talk to the clerical regime about violence in Iraq could crack the door for other discussions with the last holdout among President Bush's old axis of evil.
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In a Sunni stronghold just south of Baghdad, the U.S. military has been persuading militants to switch sides. But itâs not at all clear that the enemyâs new enemy is really a friend.
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Government officials from the US have helped broker a ceasefire between two rival militia commanders in western Afghanistan.
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American and Iraqi officials reported near-victory in their campaign to dislodge insurgents from two key cities yesterday, even as rebel attacks afflicted Iraq with violence elsewhere.
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The U.S. military and Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders held talks Sunday aimed at reducing tensions in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, where 10 people died in fighting a day earlier between Shiite militiamen and ...
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US officials broker a truce between rival factions in the south-western Afghan city of Herat after heavy fighting.
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Description: Efforts are under way to arrange a ceasefire in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, where militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been battling US forces.
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In talks with some groups, the US aims to convince Shiite militias that political reconciliation, not violence, is the way forward.
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Iraqi Shi'ites fear that growing tension between neighboring Iran and the United States could leave them caught between defending a fellow Shi'ite nation and an ally that toppled their worst enemy -- Saddam Hussein.
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Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered an immediate halt to all attacks &amp;#151; including those on American troops &amp;#151; if the United States agrees to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq in two years, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces are struggling to ease sectarian tension in one of Iraq's most volatile areas where much of the population seeking security turns to terrorists, not Iraqi troops or police, a U.S. commander said on Friday.
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US forces and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s militia battled Saturday in Baghdad even as the truce that ended the bloody fighting between US-Iraqi troops and the militia forces in Najaf held for a second day.