Iraqi conference seeks to end sectarian bloodshed
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Iraq holds a national conference on Saturday designed to halt mounting sectarian violence that has raised fears of civil war and been a major issue behind U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to review his strategy.
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Iraqis meeting to pick an interim national assembly agreed to send a delegation to the holy city of Najaf today in an attempt to convince a radical Shiite cleric to end a bloody conflict with U.S. troops.
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Delegates from across Iraq gathered today in Baghdad at a three-day national conference intended to bring a taste of democratic debate to the country.
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Iraq's interim prime minister warned Monday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The deadly showdown between U.S. troops and Iraqi militants in Najaf dominated Iraq's national conference Monday, with tribal and religious leaders deciding to send 60 delegates to the holy city to persuade a radical Shiite cleric to call off his fighters...
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Delegates come together to choose candidates that will form a delegation to meet Moqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to ask him to stop fighting and join the political process instead during Iraq&#39;s National Conference, August 16, 2004. AP ...
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 29. - Iraqi tribal leaders, Shiâite politicians, government officials and US military officers met today for talks aimed at reducing tensions in Sadr City, a day after clashes there killed 10 people.
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Officials from Western states and Iraq's neighbours are to attend talks in Baghdad on stabilising the country.
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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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Delegates at Iraq's National Conference called on radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government is engaged in cease-fire talks with Sunni and Shi&#39;ite leaders in an effort to restore calm to violent parts of Iraq before January&#39;s scheduled election.
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Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders sign a deal aimed at curbing sectarian violence, Iraq's prime minister says.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, have agreed to join US and British representatives to discuss the Iraqi security crisis at a regional conference Saturday in Baghdad, the government said yesterday.
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U.S. military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a day after clashes there killed 10 people, officials said. British forces in the southern city of Basra, also the site of recent fighting, held similar talks with al-Sadr officials there.
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Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents for a summit to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi tribal leaders, Shiite politicians, government officials and U.S. military officers agreed Sunday to a one-day truce for peace talks to end violence in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a day after 10 people died in fighting there, Iraqi officials said...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's national conference sent a delegation bearing a peace proposal to Najaf on Tuesday, hoping to end the standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which has marred the gathering meant to be a landmark step toward democracy.    As the National Conference in Baghdad put together the mission, a mortar round exploded several miles from the gathering's venue, killing seven people and wounding wounding 35, according to the Health Ministry...