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In this Aug. 2, 2019 photo, seagulls fly over food trucks in Playa Bagdad close to the mouth of the Rio Grande, near the border city of Matamoros, Mexico. Unlike the Tijuana-Imperial beach border, on the western end, here there are no steel pilings marching out to sea, to stop migrants from swimming, wading or paddling across to the United States. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Mexico’s Playa Bagdad mixes sun, sand and drug trafficking

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

In this Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. A fact-finding committee appointed by the Iraqi government to investigate a massive munitions depot explosion near the capital Baghdad has concluded that the blast was the result of a drone strike. A copy of the report was obtained by The Associated Press Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed, File)

Iran-backed militias blame US for attacks on bases in Iraq

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. A fact-finding committee appointed by the Iraqi government to investigate a massive munitions depot explosion near the capital Baghdad has concluded that the blast was the result of a drone strike. A copy of the report was obtained by The Associated Press Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed, File)

Israel-Iran war escalates with airstrikes in Iraq

By Seth J. Frantzman

New explosion rocks arms depot north of Iraqi capital

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces detonate an explosive device, placed by Islamic State militants, during search operation in Taramiyah, 50 kilometers ( 31 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Security forces are sweeping villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remaining militants belonging to the Islamic State group from around the country's capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi forces clear farmland near Baghdad of IS militants

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PM of Iraq’s Kurdish region meets top officials in Baghdad

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Iraq boosts security measures at base where US trainers stay

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

FILE - in this Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018 file photo, an Iraqi army soldier stand guard near a U.S.- made Iraqi Air Force F-16 fighter jet at the Balad Air Base, Iraq. Militants fired early Saturday, June 15, 2019, three mortar shells on an air base just north of Baghdad where American trainers are present, causing a small fires but no casualties, the Iraqi military said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

The Latest: 2 rockets land on oil company sites in Iraq

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Roadside bomb north of Iraqi capital kills 4 security forces

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Iraqi court sentences 2 French IS member to death

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces burn representations of U.S. and Israeli flags during &quot;al-Quds&quot; Day, Arabic for Jerusalem, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 31, 2019. Jerusalem Day began after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, when the Ayatollah Khomeini declared the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan a day to demonstrate the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

Protesters in Iran, Iraq burn Israel, US flags on ‘Quds Day’

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim, right, shakes hands with his visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq offers to mediate U.S.-Iran crisis

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019, file photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting in Tehran, Iran. Iran’s supreme leader has publicly chastised the country’s moderate president and foreign minister, saying he disagreed with the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal they had negotiated with world powers. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iraq offers to mediate in crisis between its allies Iran, US

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

In this photo released by the National Assembly, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, meets Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, May 24, 2019. Zarif is in Pakistan Friday on a critically timed visit amid a crisis between Tehran and Washington and ahead of next week's emergency Arab League meeting called by Saudi Arabia as regional tensions escalate. (Pakistan National Assembly via AP)

Baghdad offers to mediate with US as Iran’s FM visits Iraq

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Iraqi PM says he wants to end tensions between Iran and US

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 19, 2019, photo released by the U.S. Navy, sailors partake in a foreign object and debris walk-down on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Garrett LaBarge/U.S. Navy via AP)

Officials say Iran quadruples production of enriched uranium

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 19, 2019, photo released by the U.S. Navy, the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic transports cargo to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during a replenishment-at-sea in the Arabian Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jeff Sherman/U.S. Navy via AP)

The Latest: Saudi says Yemen rebels launch new drone attack

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Iraqi Shiite figures warn US-Iran war could ‘burn’ Iraq

By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Iraqi riot police close a bridge leading to the heavily guarded Green Zone during protests demanding services and jobs in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) **FILE**

Iranian-backed militias carried out Green Zone attack, say Iraqi counterterrorism officials

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 file photo, a worker operates valves in Nihran Bin Omar field north of Basra, Iraq. An Iraqi oil official says employees of energy giant Exxon Mobil have started evacuating an oil field in the southern province of Basra, amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran. The first group left two days ago and another batch left early Saturday May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, File)

ExxonMobil employees evacuating oil field in southern Iraq

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press