US Secretary of State John Kerry has voiced confidence that the Iraqi government and tribes would be successful in their fight against al Qaeda, and said Washington was not considering sending troops back to Iraq.
Sectarian and ethnic tensions have risen in Iraq since the US withdrawal in December 2011, inflamed by the conflict in neighbouring Syria, where mainly Sunni rebels are trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad, who is backed by Shia Iran.
The Iraqi army has joined forces with local tribesmen to battle al Qaeda, which has teamed up with groups of Syrian rebels to try to create across the Iraqi-Syrian border a state based on strict medieval Sunni Islamic practice.
"This is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis ... We are not contemplating returning." Mr Kerry told reporters during a visit to Israel.
"We will help them in their fight, but this fight, in the end, they will have to win and I am confident they can."
The Iraqi military's cooperation with the tribesmen against al Qaeda echoed a decision by local tribes in 2006 to join forces with US troops after the 2003 US invasion.
Baghdad bomb attacks
Two car bombs and roadside bombs have exploded in commercial areas of Baghdad killing at least 14 people, police and medical sources said.
The deadliest attack took place in northern Baghdad's mainly Shia district of Shaab, where two car bombs went off killing at least nine people and wounding 25.
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