The United States will hand over security control of Iraq's once-restive Anbar province to the Iraqi government within days, the top US Marine Corps officer said on Wednesday.
“The province could turn over to Iraqi control in just a few days," Marine Corps Commandant, Gen. James Conway, told reporters of the province west of Baghdad, which was a hotbed of al-Qaeda violence until local Iraqis shifted allegiance to the United States.
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