Sunni Tribes to Fight Until Iraq’s Maliki Goes, Chief Says

Sunni tribes battling the Shiite-led government of Iraq won’t stop until Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki steps down, a clan chief said. Then they want to set up their own autonomous region within a united Iraq.

“There is no way back,” Najih al-Mizan, a leader from the Albu-Rahman tribe in the northern city of Samarra in Salahuddin province, said by phone. “We’re going to form our own federal territory based on the Iraqi constitution.”