Reports from Najaf in Iraq say a truce is holding after more than a week of fighting between militants loyal to the Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and US troops and Iraqi forces.
A spokesman for al-Sadr has said he will pull his troops out of Najaf if US forces also withdraw. Sadr has also said that the city's sacred sites must be administered by religious authorities.
Talks are continuing to broker a more permanent peace.
Earlier, Iraq's interim government had said al-Sadr was negotiating to leave a shrine in Najaf.
However, there was confusion over what happened to the cleric after a claim by his spokesman that he had been wounded in a US bombing raid. This claim was denied by the Iraqi government.
