Thursday, June 26, 2008

US army to hand over security in Iraq's Anbar province

Baghdad - Iraqi troops are expected to take over security tasks in the once volatile western Anbar province from the US military on Saturday, making it the first Sunni Arab area to be handed back to Iraq. 'Preparations are underway for the transfer of security responsibilities by US troops in Anbar,' General Murdi Nayyif al-Hardan, the commander of the Iraqi army in the province.

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