Iraq seeks neighbors help to avert civil war
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's ruling Shi'ite leaders on Friday urged neighboring and Western powers to join forces to prevent their country from sliding into all-out civil war that could spread across the region.
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Iran and Saudi Arabia called Monday for the United Nations to intervene in Iraq to stop the fighting between U.S. forces and Shhite militants hiding in the holy city of Najaf.
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Iraq will ask Iran and Turkey for border security arrangements to keep foreign militants out, similar to measures already agreed with Syria, the Iraqi Foreign Minister said on Monday.
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Two-day meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh is to help Iraq emerge from violence, discuss other Mideast issues. By Marc Burleigh - SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that Iraq is close to civil war, as the Bush administration stepped up diplomatic efforts to stabilize the wartorn country.
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Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari urged Iraq's neighbors Sunday to prevent ''terrorists and killers'' from crossing into his country and warned that the violence in Iraq could spill across its borders into other nations.
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A regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday aims to rally support behind the Iraqi government and map out ways to cooperate in easing the country's bloody conflict. But the participants are coming in with starkly different agendas. The session gathers diplomats from Iraq's Arab neighbors as well as Iran, Turkey, the United States and the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
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Officials from Western states and Iraq's neighbours are to attend talks in Baghdad on stabilising the country.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, addressing a meeting at which U.S. officials sat down with adversaries from Iran and Syria, urged Iraq's regional rivals on Saturday to stop supporting insurgents in the country.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is dispatching envoys to neighboring Arab states to win support for his handling of the insurgency in his homeland, a government spokesman said yesterday.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials are questioning if Nuri Kamal al-Maliki can keep Iraq from descending into civil war.
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Countries taking part in the conference on Iraq differ on how to assist the nation, but they strongly support the interim government&#39;s efforts
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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. British forces in the southern city of Basra, also the site of recent fighting, held similar talks with al-Sadr officials there.
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Jordan hosts a meeting of Iraq's neighbours to rally support for Iraqi elections on 30 January.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military and Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders held talks Sunday aimed at reducing tensions in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, where 10 people died in fighting a day earlier between Shiite militiamen and U.S...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi appealed to the world leaders at the United Nations yesterday to help his country achieve stability by sending peacekeepers, reinforcing borders and forgiving its debts.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki made an urgent plea on Sunday to the rival sectarian factions in his government to end disputes that he said were behind the bloodshed and crisis of recent days.