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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)
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Internally displaced Sunni Iraqis, from Fallujah, gather around a heater to warm up themselves at a school in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Tribal leaders in the besieged city of Fallujah warned al-Qaida-linked fighters to leave to avoid a military showdown, echoing a call by Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Wednesday that they give up their fight as the government pushes to regain control of mainly Sunni areas west of Baghdad. (AP Photo)
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Speaking out: Lukman Faily, Iraqi ambassador to the United States, says the Obama administration is not as engaged in his country's future as was the Bush administration, but adds that sectarian divisions are not about to erupt into civil war. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 image made from video, U.S. soldiers tend to an injured comrade as U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed their way into the center of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq, overwhelming small bands of guerrillas with massive force, searching homes along the city's deserted, narrow passageways and using loudspeakers to try to goad militants onto the streets. (AP Photo/APTN, Pool)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 file photo, gunmen gather in a street as they chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government and demanding that the Iraqi army not try to enter the city in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Fierce clashes erupted Tuesday between Iraqi special forces and al-Qaida-linked militants outside the city of Fallujah, a flare-up in a days-long standoff in the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo)
