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This article discusses the Iraq War during March of 2007. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has asked Iraq's neighbors to help him in controlling violence in the Gulf War region by refusing to finance attacks or allow foreign militias to cross their borders. Maliki's pleas came as mortar shells were being lodged at the 13-nation conference.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that his representatives had begun talks with the Taliban and the American government, a potentially significant development suggesting that the Taliban were dropping longstanding objections to face-to-face discussions with the Afghan government. A member of the Afghan High Peace Council also described the recent Afghan government contacts to The New York Times this week and said that there had been an agreement with Taliban representatives to go ahead with peace talks in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, but there was no date yet for meetings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]