Iraqi security handover to begin

Updated: 15:28, Monday, 19 June 2006

Iraqi troops will take over security in the country's southern province of Muthanna next month, it has been announced.

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Iraqi troops will take over security in the country's southern province of Muthanna next month, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said.

British soldiers currently oversee a multi-national contingent including Japanese and Australian troops in the area.

Iraqi and British officials have said for some weeks that a handover was likely in July.

It would be the first of Iraq's 15 provinces outside of the relatively peaceful north to be under full Iraqi control.

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