An uneasy peace settles in a ravaged Najaf
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SOME have shed their black combat gear for civilian clothes and are ready to go back to their jobs as fish vendors, butchers and engineers after three weeks of battles with United States forces in Najaf.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting has broken out between US troops and Shi&#39;ite militiamen in the Iraqi city of Najaf after a peace delegation failed to broker a truce to end nearly two weeks of clashes.
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NAJAF, Iraq : The heart of Najaf was engulfed in fierce fighting as delegates from Iraq&#39;s national conference arrived on a mission to coax Shiite militia leader Moqtada Sadr into abandoning his stronghold in the holy city.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine on Friday and militants left, handing the keys to Shiite religious authorities after Iraq's top Shiite cleric brokered a peace deal to end three weeks of fighting in this holy city.    Dozens of Iraqi police and national guardsmen deployed around the compound of the walled, golden-domed shrine in the Old City Friday afternoon - but did not enter...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - When Saddam Hussein ruled Najaf  with an iron fist, Samir Ghalib stayed home during troubled  times.
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Peace has failed to bring reconciliation in Najaf, a city considered significant to Shi&#39;ite Muslims and where self-declared holy warriors battled US forces last month.
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Fighting continued in Najaf late last night despite an earlier declaration that the Shia leader Muqtada Sadr had accepted a peace plan designed to end the two-week battle for control of the city.
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The faith-based compromise that has brought an apparent end to three weeks of bitter fighting around the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf should also bring thunderous sighs of relief from the Bush
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NAJAF, Iraq - War-weary Iraqis returned to devastated offices and shops in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday after three weeks of clashes as U.S. forces monitored a fragile cease-fire, but violence persisted in Baghdad, killing at least five people...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Explosions and gunfire shook Najaf&#39;s Old City yesterday in a fierce battle between US forces and Shiite militants, as negotiations dragged on for the handover of the revered shrine that the fighters have used for their stronghold.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fears of heavier fighting in Najaf grew on Wednesday after an Iraqi peace delegation failed to defuse a confrontation between US troops and militiamen holed up in a revered shrine in the city.
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Guns were largely silent in Najaf today for the first time in weeks, after Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to the holy city and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting has broken out between Iraqi Shi&#39;ite militiamen and US troops in the holy city of Najaf, leaving many people killed and wounded, medical officials say.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to lay down their arms and leave Najaf and neighboring Kufa Friday after agreeing to a peace deal brokered by Iraq's top spiritual leader to end three weeks of bloody fighting.    Al-Sadr issued the order in a statement to his Mahdi Army militia that also was broadcast through loudspeakers at the revered Imam Ali Shrine, which militants have used as a stronghold and refuge throughout their standoff with a combined U.S.-Iraqi force...
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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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Calm reigned in Najaf Friday, as Shi&#39;ite militants abandoned the holy Imam Ali shrine in accordance with a peace deal brokered by Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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It has been a week since a peace deal was struck in the Iraqi city of Najaf, bringing an end to three weeks of fighting and opening the predominantly Shia city up to millions of dollars in reconstruction aid.