An Iraqi soldier uses a binoculars at a checkpoint in Ein Tamarm, a town some 40 km (25 miles) west of Kerbala, January 7, 2014. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to eradicate al Qaeda in Iraq and predicted victory as his army prepared to launch a major assault against the Sunni Islamist militants who have taken over parts of the city of Falluja.
Fighters from the al Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also active across the border in Syria, overran police stations in Falluja and another city in Iraq's western Anbar province last week.
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