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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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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)
