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Iraqi government rejects Sunni pact demands

The Iraq government's Shiite bloc on Thursday rejected two demands made by a group of mostly Sunni lawmakers as conditions for their support of a proposal to allow American troops to stay through 2011, an aide to the prime...

Iraqi public to vote on U.S. pact

Sunni legislators sought the referendum and then added other demands. By Raheem Salman and Tina Susman Los Angeles Times BAGHDAD — Sunni Muslim lawmakers appeared to have won demands Wednesday for a referendum that would let...

Iraqis Agree to Put U.S. Troop Withdrawal to National Vote

BAGHDAD, Nov. 26 -- Iraqi lawmakers postponed until Thursday a scheduled vote on a security agreement that would extend the U.S. military presence in Iraq. But they have agreed to make the pact subject to a national referendum...

Sunnis link vote to list of demands

Sunni lawmakers on Tuesday listed a host of demands, ranging from sweeping political reforms to amnesty for prisoners, in exchange for supporting a pact to keep U.S. forces in Iraq through 2011, dimming Iraqi leaders' hopes for...

Iran urges Lebanese to unite against Israel

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, a main backer of Lebanon's Shi'ite group Hezbollah, urged the Lebanese people on Tuesday to unite to confront Israel, the Islamic Republic's arch foe. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made...

al-Sadr followers protest Iraqi-U.S. pact with rally

BAGHDAD — Tens of thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr packed a central Baghdad square Friday, where they protested a U.S.-Iraq security agreement and likened Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to fallen...

NY Times: Hizbullah Influencing Young Minds

The New York Times on Friday published its report- an eighth in a series of articles examining the lives of the young across the Muslim world at a time of religious revival. This is the vanguard of Hezbullah's youth movement,...

Thousands protest Iraq-US military pact (AAP)

Thousands of Shi'ite followers of firebrand anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad to protest a security accord that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq until 2011. The crowds swarmed into central...

Iraqi Parliament poised to approve US security pact despite Shiite opposition

Iraq's Parliament appeared likely to approve a comprehensive US military pact that would see all troops leave by the end of 2011 despite a loud and contentious debate of the measure on Thursday. MPs succeeded in holding a...

Hezbollah's foundation is built on youth

Graduating Hezbollah Mahdi Scouts saluting during a graduation ceremony in August in Lebanon. Affiliations with Hezbollah can start young and touch all parts of daily life. (Bryan Denton for The New York Times) Hezbollah's...

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