BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced an overhaul of Iraq’s security strategy on Monday as a fresh surge of violence killed dozens of civilians and police officers, bringing the month’s toll to 366.

“We are about to make changes in the high and middle positions of those responsible for security, and the security strategy,” Maliki told journalists in Baghdad. Cabinet would discuss the matter on Tuesday, he said.

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