7 lesser Iraq insurgent groups seek truce
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Seven Sunni Arab insurgent groups have contacted the government to declare their readiness to join in efforts at national reconciliation, a key Shiite legislator said Monday.
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Representatives of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups discussed ways to reconcile Tuesday and end the escalating sectarian violence threatening to break up the country.
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A Shi'ite militia disarmament plan that  could end weeks of fighting in Baghdad got off to a slow start  on Monday as Iraq's interim government pursued peace talks with  the rebel-held Sunni Muslim city of Falluja.
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BAGHDAD.âThe main Iraqi Sunni political grouping, the moderate Iraqi Islamic party (IIP), today withdrew its list of candidates for the January 30 elections, on a day once again full of violence in which 13 people died in an attack in Baghdad, DPA
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Iraqi officials Tuesday appealed to  neighboring countries to do more to stop the cross-border  activities of rebels whose relentless attacks have cast doubt  on whether Jan. 30 elections can be held on time.
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Iraq's interim prime minister Iyad  Allawi has held private meetings with Iraqi insurgents in an  effort to persuade them to accept a government amnesty offer,  The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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An Iraqi insurgent group accused Iraqis who help the U.S. military of being criminals and bandits, referring to Sunni tribes fighting al-Qaida in the western Anbar province, according to a new video posted Wednesday.
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A Sunni insurgent group said Wednesday it has reached a cease-fire with al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Several insurgent groups have approached the Thai army for talks to end nearly three years of unrest in the Muslim-majority south, but they must first impose a ceasefire, the region's top general said on Thursday.
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A Shi'ite militia disarmament plan that could end weeks of fighting in Baghdad got off to a slow start on Monday as Iraq's interim government pursued peace talks with the rebel-held Sunni Muslim city of Falluja.
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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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Insurgents armed with automatic rifles  and rocket-propelled grenades skirmished with U.S. and Iraqi  forces in Sunni Muslim areas of Baghdad Saturday and at least  three police and seven insurgents were killed.
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Followers of renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have agreed to a cease-fire with Iraq's interim government aimed at ending weeks of fighting in the vast Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a mediator said Wednesday. However, key members of the cleric's movement insisted terms of the deal had not been finalized.
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The smaller of Colombia's two leftist rebel groups offered Tuesday to meet with a Mexican mediator to discuss possible peace talks with the government and reiterated its call for a bilateral cease-fire.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq&#39;s leader says there is now one less militant group operating in his country. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (EE&#39;-yahd ah-LAH&#39;-wee) says key members of a group called Mohammed&#39;s Army are under
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INSURGENTS in Iraq are continuing to pursue their deadly campaign against US troops and Iraqi security forces. Suicide car bombers struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in
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Insurgent attacks killed seven Iraqi  soldiers on Saturday as guerrillas stayed on the offensive  after failing to scupper last week's historic election.