"I announce the offer of the amnesty pardon for all tribes and for all people who were involved in acting against state to return to their sanity, and they are welcome. We will not exclude anyone except those who killed and shed blood," Maliki said in his weekly televised address.
On another note, Al-Maliki warned that an extremist group's declaration of an Islamic state in territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria is a threat to the entire region.
Al-Maliki said the announcement this week by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that it has unilaterally established a caliphate "is a message to all the states in the region that you are inside the red circle now."
"No one in Iraq or any neighboring country will be safe from these plans."
The Sunni extremist group has overrun huge swaths of northern and western Iraq in recent weeks, linking up with territory already under its control in neighboring Syria.
REUTERS