, the newspaper quoted U.S. officials that " Maliki is ready to reach out to the Sunnis and began to listen to our advice ."

According to a report in The Washington Post , briefed by " Shafaq News " “ the spokesman of the White House , Jay Carney congratulated Maliki for " moving forward in communicating with local and tribal leaders and Iraqi nationalists , including Sunnis and Kurds , and calling formally the leaders of the tribes of Sunnis to stand beside him during his battle against al-Qaeda”.

The newspaper pointed out that Carney has shown signs of satisfaction , that the Iraqi Council of Ministers decided to provide government subsidies to compensate the tribal forces that suffered from the death and injury of some of its members during the fighting , in addition to accelerating the delivery of humanitarian assistance to other Sunni populations .

The newspaper quoted a senior congressmen from the Republican Party , as well as some Democrats and experts in Iraqi affairs , said that the problem was not that al-Maliki did not want to listen, but that President Obama did not speak loud enough to attract the attention of the Iraqi prime minister .

In a speech marked by severe criticism of speech in the Senate , Republican Senator John McCain, the MP for the state of Arizona said, "I blame Prime Minister Maliki . But we were not there so we can pressure him ( to back down from his policies ) ."

While Republican Senator Lindsey Graham , MP for South Carolina , said that if American troops were left in Iraq, " the results would be quite different from the current situation ."

Over the weekend, Brett McGurk, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs, traveled to Iraq to meet with Maliki.

Combat troops backed by air support have launched since days , large-scale of military operation in the desert areas of Anbar, an extension of the borders of Syria and Jordan against the strongholds of al-Qaeda after killing a number of military commanders.

But militants of those organizations have moved to the cities of the province after events have evolved because of the lifting sit-in tents and the arrest of MP Ahmed al-Alwani and killing his brother, which made security chaos and anger by some tribes , as Anbar province is still witnessing continues clashes since then.