Mortars Mark Opening of Iraqi Political Conference
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Insurgents fired mortars at a meeting where Iraqi leaders met to pick an interim national assembly on Sunday, killing at least two people in a grim reminder of the country's tortuous path toward democracy.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops poured into Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Sunday, encountering no resistance in the one-time Sadr City combat zones but testing the Shiites' commitment to the U.S.-promoted campaign to drive militants from the capital.
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Shiite fighters in tracksuits and sneakers unloaded cars full of machine guns, mortars and land mines Monday as a five-day, weapons-for-cash disarmament program kicked off in Baghdad's Sadr City district &#151; a sign of progress in the center of Shiite resistance in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim legislature convened yesterday for the first time, walled off behind US tanks as mortar rounds hit close to its meeting place.
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Mortar fire greeted the opening session of Iraq's new parliament Wednesday, underscoring the parlous security situation a day after 12 Nepalese hostages were slaughtered by their captors.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq arrived here today for a meeting with President Bush that will focus on finding a strategy to stop the violence in Iraq.
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A national conference, hailed as Iraq's first brush with democracy in decades, is a significant step along the road to reconciliation and a peaceful future for all Iraqis, according to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
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As religious and political leaders met in Baghdad yesterday to discuss the selection of a 100-member interim assembly, a few kilometres away seven people were killed and 47 injured when a mortar shell exploded in a busy street.
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The 25th summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) kicked off here Monday to focus on its economic integration and regional security issues including the Iraqi situation.
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Delegates at Iraq&#39;s national conference are voting on a new council that will oversee the interim government. Several delegates went to the holy city of Najaf to try to end an uprising there, but they returned without having met the leader of the ...
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 22  - Iraq and its neighbours on Monday threw their weight behind elections seen as crucial to the future of the violence-wracked country, at the opening of an international conference that was to put the United States at
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Shiite fighters in tracksuits and sneakers unloaded cars full of machine guns, mortars and land mines Monday as a five-day disarmament program kicked off in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district a sign of progress in the center of Shiite resistance in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 1,100 Iraqis convened yesterday for the start of a conference aimed at selecting a national assembly, a milestone in the country's transition to democracy, but the high-security meeting was roiled by a dispute over the use of military force to confront militiamen loyal to a rebellious Shi'ite Muslim cleric.
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Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for  a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq's elections will produce a  broad-based government, their host said Monday.
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The world&#39;s top diplomats joined officials of Iraq and its neighbors Tuesday to open a conference to discuss the future of the war-torn country.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt : An international conference on the future of Iraq opened for two days of talks that will bring the United States to the same table as some of its fiercest anti-war critics.
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The Iraqi election season officially kicked off yesterday, and the mudslinging started right away. Iraq&#39;s defense minister, an ally of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, blasted