Iraq Sunni Arabs won't rejoin cabinet despite deal
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A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure minority Sunni Arabs back into the government, the Sunni Arab vice president who signed it said on Monday.
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Iraq's Shiite leader was firm, his aides say &#151; he would not talk to President Bush with Jordan's Sunni king listening.
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Having won a two-month reprieve from Congress to demonstrate progress in Iraq, the White House does not intend to give up on trying to forge a grand political bargain among Iraq's sectarian leaders, even though such a deal has proved elusive since the 2003 invasion, administration officials said.
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Ayad Allawi, Iraq&#39;s prime minister, backed out yesterday from plans for a reconciliation conference in Jordan with Iraq&#39;s exiled opposition, setting back hopes of a government accommodation
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The chief spokesman for rebel Iraqi  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday no deal had been  agreed with Iraq's government to end fighting in Baghdad's  Shi'ite slum district of Sadr City.
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The head of Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on Saturday the bloc had agreed to rejoin the Shi'ite-led government, but other senior officials said no final decision had been made.
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DAVOS, Switzerland -- An Iraqi Cabinet minister suggested yesterday that Sunni Muslims and other groups who boycott this weekend's election should receive jobs in Iraqi ministries to give them a stake in the future of a democratic nation.
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Viewpoint: The return of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatens the Maliki government but does not promise any more stability
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Nearly two months after Sunni Arab ministers walked out, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears to have weathered a political crisis that once threatened to bring down his government.
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The Arab League's representative to Iraq has submitted his resignation, citing insufficient funding and slow progress on the pan-Arab organization's efforts to foster reconciliation among Iraqis, Arab diplomats said Saturday.
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Iraq's prime minister urged ministers from the main Sunni Arab bloc on Saturday to return to their vacant government posts, suggesting he would soon form a new cabinet if they refused.
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Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said yesterday that Sunni Arabs should be given a meaningful role in forming a new government, despite their large-scale boycott of Sunday's election.
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Political leaders in the capital struggled to reach a deal that would end the fight over splitting Iraq into autonomous states.
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Iraq's Interior Ministry said on Thursday it would not disband the national police despite a report by an independent U.S. panel that will recommend scrapping and reorganizing the force.
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More and more Sunni fighters want to be allied  -  and paid  -  by the U.S. military. But they don't want to join the Shi'ite government's security forces
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political parties reached an agreement yesterday that was meant to prevent the country from splintering into a federation of three autonomous zones until at least 2008.
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BEIJING, Dec. 28 -- Iraq&#39;s top Sunni Muslim party is withdrawing from the January 30 poll. The Iraqi Islamic Party says persistent violence will keep people from voting in the Sunni north and west.