Iraq's Shi'ite militiamen stir unease in Sunni Falluja

A member of Iraqi government forces reacts to the camera in Falluja after government forces recaptured the city from Islamic State militants, Iraq, July 1, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A highway overpass in central Falluja, from which Islamic State militants hanged a captured Iraqi soldier last year, bears the marks of the city's latest victors, including a slogan scrawled in green spray paint: "The state of (Imam) Hussein remains."

The overtly Shi'ite Muslim phrase, which appears to mimic Islamic State's own "Remain and Extend" motto, was left a week ago by one of the Shi'ite militiamen who helped drive Islamic State from the Sunni city it captured in January 2014.