'''Anbar Salvation Council''' is a [[Sunni]] militia in [[Iraq]] formed by members of [[baathist]] and nationalist to fight [[Al-Qaeda in Iraq]]. Fighting against the [[United States of America|Americans]] in the beginning of the war, they have since allied themselves with the U.S. to rid their country of foreign extremist composing mainly of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. It has been reported that they have received cars, guns, and ammuntion by the [[Military of Iraq|Iraqi]] and [[Military of the United States|U.S. forces]] to counter the [[islamists]] in the [[Al-Anbar province]]. In rescent months elderly sheiks and tribal leaders have turned away from the Islamic State in Iraq, a radical sunni extremist terrorist organization who specializes in car bombs and suicide attacks. But the group has struck back at the tribes using chlorine truck bombs and calling them traitors for working with the government.