Local Foes Commit to Peace in Baghdad
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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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BAGHDAD -- The relative lull in violence is a promising sign that the Baghdad security plan is off to a good start, the Iraqi prime minister said yesterday, while a top US military official cautioned that it might be a temporary letup as militant organizations assess the new measures and gear up to fight back.
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With violence down, U.S. soldiers have become child and social welfare in a once troubled Baghdad neighborhood. But can the quiet last?
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A barrage of mortar fire Thursday ended a brief period of relative calm in Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding more than a dozen, while insurgents continued
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BAGHDAD -- It began with a dispute over the price of ice and erupted into full-scale violence over the sighting of two strange cars cruising the neighborhood. A week later, the scars of sectarian strife were visible everywhere in Tobji.
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Fighters loyal to radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr reach a deal to end weeks of fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug. 29, 2004 - The US military and Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders held talks Sunday aimed a reducing tensions in the Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, where 10 people died in fighting a day earlier between Shiite militiamen and US troops.
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Iraqi Sunni and Shiite delegates made progress at secret peace talks in Finland, negotiators said Tuesday, cautioning that their Northern Ireland-inspired agreement would have to be endorsed by top leaders in Baghdad to have any chance of succeeding.
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Iraq signaled that world powers and neighboring countries, including Washington and its adversaries Iran and Syria, had agreed in Baghdad it was vital to all to stop sectarian violence spreading in the region.
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad feels the tension at a road checkpoint in the Iraqi capital
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Government forces fanned out across Baghdad, setting up checkpoints and frisking motorists in a major security operation to crackdown on violence in the capital. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised the crackdown would not target any ethnic or sectarian group.
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Residents of Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district slowly began to turn in weapons yesterday, the first step in a process that US and Iraqi officials hope
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Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish political leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key measures seen as vital to fostering national reconciliation.
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The U.S. military buildup has brought some relief from bombs and bullets to Baghdad's shattered neighborhoods. But it has failed so far to reach its overarching purpose: getting Iraqis to agree to the political compromises that Washington consider crucial for any lasting stability.
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U.S. plans to add military muscle to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad will achieve only limited success without a political agreement among Iraq's religious and sectarian factions on the future of the country.
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People are reflect in a motorbike&#39;s rearview mirror during prayer in Baghdad&#39;s Shiite enclave of Sadr City Friday, Dec. 24, 2004.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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...