The Qatar-based channel said in a statement that Iraq's information ministry had informed its Baghdad bureau that "our correspondents in the Iraqi capital Diyar al-Umari and Tayseer Alluni are no longer forbidden from working."

Al-Jazeera on Thursday protested the threatened action and stopped work by all its reporters in Iraq, although it continued to air pictures from its three offices in Iraq: Baghdad, Basra in the south, and the northern town of Mosul.

The channel resumed full coverage Friday at 1745 GMT. Al-Jazeera had said the information ministry did not give reasons for the action against its correspondents.

US officials have accused Al-Jazeera of presenting a one-sided version of the US-led war to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and were furious when it aired pictures of POWs and the bloodied bodies of US troops.

But Al-Jazeera remains popular around the Arab world and has reported a 10-percent jump in viewer figures -- to 44 million -- since the March 10 start of the war.

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