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FILE - In this Wednesday January 1, 2014, file photo, al-Qaida fighters patrol in a commandeered police truck passing burning police vehicles in front of the main provincial government building, in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. With a new label - the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - the global terror network al-Qaida is positioning itself as a vanguard defending a persecuted Sunni community against Shiite-dominated governments across Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. The al-Qaida gains pose the most serious challenge to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-led government since the departure of American forces in late 2011. (AP Photo, File)

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Mourners carry the coffin of Yazn Jassim Mohammed, 24, who was killed when clashes erupted between al-Qaida gunmen and Iraqi army soldiers on Tuesday, his family said, during his funeral in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki urged al-Qaida-linked fighters who have overrun two cities west of Baghdad to give up the battle, vowing Wednesday to press forward with a push to regain control of the mainly Sunni areas. (AP Photo)