Reporter Freed as Rebel Cleric Brokers a Deal
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The journalist was released after Moktada al-Sadr intervened, even as his Shiite militia engaged in heavy fighting in Najaf.
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The BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston is freed from kidnappers after almost four months in captivity.
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Negotiators from Myanmar&#39;s largest armed rebel group have been freed after they were detained during a political shakeup in Yangon, the rebel group said today.
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Kidnapped US journalist Micah Garen has been released Sunday to government officials in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Reports say the release came four days after radical Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr started negotiations with the kidnappers.
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Palestinian militants yesterday released an Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN a day after abducting him at gunpoint in the
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A deal has been struck with the kidnappers of two journalists working for CBS News who were reported missing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a spokesman for Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed early Wednesday in Gaza City after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his abductors.
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Negotiations to free a CBS News journalist seized in the southern Iraqi city of Basra a week ago are being held up over discussions about how he should be released, a leading Shi'ite militia group said on Sunday.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested the turning point that led to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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The radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was reported last night to have accepted a peace deal that could end the violent two-week uprising in Najaf and see his militia leave the city&#39;s Imam Ali Shrine.
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A top aide to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said today that kidnappers who abducted and threatened to kill a US journalist had promised to set him free.
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BAGHDAD A senior aide to the rebel Iraqi cleric Moktada al-Sadr was released from US detention on Thursday, said an aide to Sadr, Sheik Mahmoud Sudani.
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Najaf - Iraq&#39;s most revered Shi&#39;a leader persuaded a rebel cleric to accept a deal ending a three-week uprising in this holy city on Thursday, after returning amid bloody clashes that killed at least 74 people.
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US journalist Micah Garen, who was kidnapped Aug. 13 in the southern city of Nasiriyah, was released along with his Iraqi translator after anti-American cleric
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The government reached an agreement with a renegade general to end an insurgency that has  threatened to unravel the countryâs new democratically elected government.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most respected Muslim cleric, returned to this beleaguered city yesterday and persuaded rebel leader Moqtada al-Sadr to end a bloody three-week standoff with US and Iraqi government forces.
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reached an agreement with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that grants his freedom from murder charges and secures peace in war-torn Najaf, al-Sistani aides said on Thursday.