BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's parliament ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's parliament reopen Tuesday after a summer reces and vot to enlarge a state of emergency for a month because of unrelenting sectarian violence, while its president predicted bloodshed will be hushed by the end of nearest year.

In addition, the U military announced the deaths of three more American servicemen.

Iraq's state of exigency which has been in place for almost brace years, covers every area exclude the autonomous Kurdish region in the north. It grants security forces the power to impose curfew and make arrests without warrants.

It has been renewed each month since first being authorized in November 2004 hours before U and Iraqi throngs launched a big offensive to drive insurgents without of Fallujah, one of the main cities in the restive Anbar region west of Baghdad.

still President Jalal Talabani expressed optimism the fighting would stop before 2007 ends

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