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Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba waits for the start of the NATO-Ukraine Commission during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Ukraine rejects Iraqi offer to mediate talks with Russia

By Ali Abdul-Hassan and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

The toppled statue of Saddam Hussein is seen in Firdos Square downtown Baghdad in this April 9, 2003 file photo. The statue was taken down by a US marines and Iraqis as American troops entered the capital. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay/File)

Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad

By Kareem Chehayeb and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Nidal Ali, right, and Nawal Sweidan hold photos of their missing sons in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Their sons were both kidnapped by extremist groups in 2014. Though active conflict in Iraq has largely subsided, many are still waiting to learn the fate of missing loved ones who disappeared during the US invasion, the subsequent civil war, or during the war against the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Thousands still missing from 20 years of Iraq’s turmoil

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Iraqi army soldiers bring in a blindfolded and handcuffed suspected al-Qaida member to detention centers in an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, Iraq, June 16, 2010. Iraqi security forces raided some villages in Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad, and detained 16 men suspected members of al-Qaida. (AP Photo, File)

Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

By John Daniszewski - Associated Press

A family heads to the al-Kadhimayn shrine in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. For Iraqis, the war and U.S. occupation which started two decades ago were traumatic – an estimated 300,000 Iraqis were killed between 2003 and 2019, according to an estimate by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, in addition to some 4,000 Americans. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope

By John Daniszewski - Associated Press

A U.S. military vehicle, part of a convoy, arrives near Dahuk, Iraq, Oct. 21, 2019. Twenty years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, in blinding explosions of shock and awe, American forces remain in the country in what has become a small, but consistent presence to ensure an ongoing relationship with a key military and diplomatic partner in the Middle East. (AP Photo/File)

Why U.S. troops remain in Iraq 20 years after ‘shock and awe’

By Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp - Associated Press

People buy alcohol in a liquor store in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 9, 2023. The Iraqi government started enforcing a 2016 ban on alcoholic beverages this month, although many liquor shops remained open in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq’s crackdown on booze, social media posts raises alarm

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Security forces stand guard during a demonstration in front of the Iraqi central bank as currency plummets against the U.S. dollar, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. In recent weeks, Iraq's currency has taken a plunge as a result of newly imposed restrictions on dollar transfers from the U.S., leading to spiking food prices and political unrest. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Targeting Iran, U.S. tightens Iraq’s dollar flow, causing pain

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

People sit in an unlicensed Starbucks cafe in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Real Starbucks merchandise is imported from neighboring countries to stock the three cafes in the city, but all are unlicensed. Starbucks filed a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down the trademark violation but the case was shuttered after the owner allegedly threatened lawyers hired by the coffee house. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

Real coffee, but a fake ‘Starbucks’ in piracy-ridden Iraq

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces fire tear gas on followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protesting inside the government palace grounds, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Al-Sadr, a hugely influential Shiite cleric announced he will resign from Iraqi politics and his angry followers stormed the government palace in response. The chaos Monday sparked fears that violence could erupt in a country already beset by its worst political crisis in years. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi cleric calls on loyalists to withdraw after clashes

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in Najaf, Iraq, Feb. 10, 2021. Al-Sadr who's followers have been staging a sit-in outside Iraq's parliament announced his resignation from politics and the closure of his party's offices on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. It is an unexpected plot twist more than four weeks after his supporters stormed the parliament building to prevent his Iran-backed rivals from forming a government. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite cleric, announces retirement in plot twist

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces fire tear gas on followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protesting inside the government palace grounds, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Al-Sadr, a hugely influential Shiite cleric announced he will resign from Iraqi politics and his angry followers stormed the government palace in response. The chaos Monday sparked fears that violence could erupt in a country already beset by its worst political crisis in years. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Chaos and deadly clashes in Baghdad as cleric al-Sadr leaves Iraqi politics

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Supporters of Iran-backed Shiite Coordination Framework attend a rally to denounce their rivals, followers of an influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who stormed the parliament last month and have since been holding a sit-in outside the assembly building in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iraqi judiciary says it has no powers to dissolve parliament

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold prayer near the parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Al-Sadr's supporters continue their sit-in outside the parliament to demand early elections. The photo show Muqtada al-Sadr and his late father Muhammed Sadiq al-Sadr. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Rival Iraq protests underscore inter-Shiite power struggle

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, speaks during a mews conference in Najaf, Iraq, Nov. 18, 2021. Residents of the impoverished Baghdad suburb of Sadr City say they they support al-Sadr an influential Shiite cleric who called on thousands of his followers to storm Iraq's parliament. Al-Sadr derives his political weight largely from their seemingly unending support. And yet, they are among Iraq’s most destitute. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

In Baghdad’s Sadr City, cleric’s support underpins protests

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Protesters set barriers during clashes between Iraqi security forces and anti-government protesters in the al-Rasheed street in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. The demonstrators complain of widespread corruption, lack of job opportunities and poor basic services, including regular power cuts despite Iraq's vast oil reserves. They have snubbed limited economic reforms proposed by the government, calling for it to resign. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi protesters storm parliament in Baghdad, set up sit-in

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, on the poster, celebrate after the announcement of the results of the parliamentary elections in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Eight months after national elections, Iraq still doesn't have a government. Driven by cutthroat competition for power and resources between elites, there is no clear way out of the unprecedented impasse. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

No way out as Iraq’s dangerous post-election impasse deepens

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Supporters and members of the Popular Mobilization Forces hold posters of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. Hundreds rally in Baghdad on Soleimani assassination anniversary, chanting anti-American slogans, hundreds of people rallied in in the Iraqi capital on the first day of the year Saturday to mark the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Risk of U.S.-Iran shadow conflict in Iraq grows as Tehran-backed militias lash out, lose allies

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Parts of the wreckage of a drone are laid out on the ground near the Ain al-Asad airbase, in the western Anbar province of Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Two explosives-laden drones targeting the base housing U.S. troops were engaged and destroyed by defensive capabilities at the base on Tuesday, a coalition official said. (International Coalition via AP)

Bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria come under attack

Associated Press

A security official holds part of the wreckage of a drone with Arabic that reads, &quot;revenge operations for our leaders,&quot; at Baghdad airport, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Two armed drones were shot down at the Baghdad airport on Monday, a U.S.-led coalition official said, an attack that coincides with the anniversary of the 2020 U.S. killing of a top Iranian general. (International Coalition via AP)

U.S.-led coalition: Attack with 2 armed drones foiled in Iraq

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press