KARBALA: The US military will hand over control of the Shia province of Karbala to Iraqi security forces next week, the province’s governor said yesterday as violence claimed another 29 lives across the country.
“Iraqi security forces will take over the security file of Karbala by end of this month from the Americans,” said the governor Akhil al-Khazali.
Karbala will be the eighth of Iraq’s 18 provinces to be transferred to Iraqi control. Under the terms of the handover, US forces will move into a reserve position and offer its troops only in case of emergency and if asked by the governor.
The province, some 80km south of Baghdad, is relatively peaceful compared to some other central and western regions of Iraq, but is emerging as a flashpoint of Shia rivalry.
The other Iraqi provinces handed over by US forces to date are Maysan, Muthanna, Dhi Qar and Najaf in the central and southern regions and the three northern Kurdish provinces of Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniyah.
Meanwhile, Iraqi troops found 17 decomposed bodies of unidenfied men near the restive city of Baquba in a grim reminder of sustained sectarian bloodletting. – AFP
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The US is getting kicked out of Iraq so now Be Tray Us is trying to sell this story of how things are going great.
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