(KUNA) -- Members of an Iraqi tribe along with local police managed to kill 39 al-Qaeda fighters in the town of Falluja, west of the capital city, Iraq's state TV said on Tuesday. The clash between the two sides resulted also in the arrest of seven more al-Qaeda fighters, said the TV station. Falluja falls within the al-Anbar province which has witnessed a marked escalation in recent times in the pursuit of fighters from the al-Qaeda by local tribesmen with the full support of local government forces.Prime minister Nuri al-Maliki had visited strife-ridden al-Anbar province last week as a show of government support to local tribesmen and government-sanctioned armed groups going after terrorists wreaking havoc in that province. The tribesmen see themselves as part of a government-approved organization known as "al-Anbar Revival" led by a distinguished Sunni leader named Sheikh Abdul-Sattar Abu Reesha.