Iraq's prime minister has announced that Iraqi forces will next month take over security in the southern province of Muthanna, where British troops currently oversee multinational forces.
Muthanna will be the first of Iraq's 15 provinces outside of the relatively peaceful Kurdish north to come under full Iraqi control, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he hoped most of the 19 provinces would soon be under local control.
"Muthanna is the first Iraqi province that will have the honour of being transferred from multinational forces to Iraqi forces," Mr Maliki said.
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