The Iraqi Army is planning to cordon off a key Sunni city now occupied by jihadists so that Sunni tribes can lead the mission to secure it one neighborhood at a time, a senior State Department official told Congress on Wednesday. “The plan is to have the tribes out in front, but with the army in support,” said Brett McGurk, the State Department’s top official on Iraq, describing preparations to try to oust the jihadists from the city of Falluja, in Anbar Province. The Iraqi strategy to take on the militants has been developed with advice from American military officers, including General Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi officials and military […]