Baghdad, Aug 7 (IANS): Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said that his country's main battle with terrorism has ended despite some cells of terrorists still being active, Xinhua reported.
"The battle with terrorism has ended and the remaining are cells here and there looking for an opportunity or a gap," said Maliki during a ceremony to reward some officers and troops who thwarted attacks by insurgents on Iraqi prisons recently.
Maliki, accused some countries without naming them, of being behind the insurgent groups in Iraq and benefiting from the unrest in the Middle East. But he assured his troops that the insurgents would not prevail anymore.