Iraq PM urges Falluja to expel al Qaeda-linked militants

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minister urged people in the besieged city of Falluja yesterday to drive out al Qaeda-linked insurgents to preempt a military offensive that officials said could be launched within days. In a statement on state television, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi’ite Muslim whose government has little support in Sunni-dominated Falluja, said tribal leaders should help expel the militants, who ...