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Customers of a convenience store have their temperature checked and are given gloves before they are allowed to enter as a precaution against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2020. Iraq announced a weeklong curfew to help fight the spread of coronavirus, late Sunday. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq ex-governor named PM-designate as Baghdad awaits curfew

By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press

Mourners carry the flag-draped coffins of two fighters of the Popular Mobilization Forces who were killed during the US attack on against militants in Iraq, during their funeral procession at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, March 14, 2020. The U.S. launched airstrikes on Thursday in Iraq, targeting the Iranian-backed Shiite militia members believed responsible for a rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iraqi military: 2 rockets hit training base south of Baghdad

By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press

A rocket-rigged truck launcher is shown after last week's rocket attack on Camp Taji in Iraq. The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State is evacuating smaller bases in Iraq to shift troops to larger, easier to defend bases. (Media Security Cell via ASSOCIATED PRESS)

U.S. forces evacuating smaller bases in Iraq following attacks

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This photo released by the government-affiliated Media Security Cell on Thursday, March 12, 2020, shows a rocket-rigged truck launcher after a rocket attack on Camp Taji, a few miles north of Baghdad, in Rashidiya, Iraq. Iraq's military on Thursday said it opened an investigation into the rocket attack that hours earlier killed three servicemen, including two Americans, at an Iraqi base housing coalition forces that has been used as a training base for a number of years. (Media Security Cell via AP)

Iraq officials: Rocket attack hits base housing US troops

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press

Destroyed buildings are seen at an airport complex under construction in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2020. Iraq's military said five security force members and a civilian were killed early Friday in a barrage of U.S. airstrikes, which were launched hours after a rocket attack killed and wounded American and British servicemen at a base north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Pentagon ‘confident’ airstrikes destroyed Iran-linked weapons facilities in Iraq

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Destroyed buildings are seen at an airport complex under construction in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, March 13, 2020. Iraq's military said five security force members and a civilian were killed early Friday in a barrage of U.S. airstrikes, which were launched hours after a rocket attack killed and wounded American and British servicemen at a base north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iraq army says U.S. strikes kill 5 security forces, 1 civilian

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

This photo released by the government-affiliated Media Security Cell on Thursday, March 12, 2020, shows a rocket-rigged truck launcher after a rocket attack on Camp Taji, a few miles north of Baghdad, in Rashidiya, Iraq. Iraq's military on Thursday said it opened an investigation into the rocket attack that hours earlier killed three servicemen, including two Americans, at an Iraqi base housing coalition forces that has been used as a training base for a number of years. (Media Security Cell via AP)

Iraq will investigate attack on base that killed US troops

By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press

In this Nov. 1, 2018, file photo U.S. Air Force F-35 A-fighter jets from 31st Test Evaluation Squadron at Edwards AFB fly over Levi's Stadium before an NFL football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders in Santa Clara, Calif. Raytheon Co. and United Technologies Corp. are merging in a deal that creates one of the world's largest defense companies. The merger was announced Sunday, June 9, 2019. United Technologies makes engines for Lockheed Marti Corp.'s F-35 stealth fighter. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

U.S. airstrikes underway against Iran-backed militia group, officials say

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Aug. 17, 2010, at Camp Taji, Iraq, members of 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division led by Lt. Col. Richard D. Heyward gather for a briefing before starting a two-day tactical road march to the Iraq-Kuwait border. They are among the last combat soldiers who will leave Iraq before the Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Cole)

Two U.S. troops killed in rocket attack on Iraq Camp Taji base

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

North Carolina Marines identified as those slain in Iraq

Associated Press

Pedestrians walk as some of them wear masks in downtown Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran to call dead medical staff ‘martrys’ as virus kills 291

By NASSER KARIMI and AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

UN envoy warns Iraq is being `pushed into the unknown’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Protesters hold posters showing Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi with Arabic that reads, &quot;Rejected by order of the people,&quot; during a rally in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 1, 2020. Iraqi student protesters converged on Baghdad's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the five-month- anti-government protest movement, to voice their rejection of Allawi. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq’s PM-designate withdraws from post, prolonging deadlock

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Medics flash the victory sign in a ward dedicated for people infected with the coronavirus, at Forqani Hospital in Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Iran's president said Wednesday, that Tehran has no immediate plans to quarantine cities over the new coronavirus rapidly spreading across the country, even as the Islamic Republic suffers the highest death toll outside of China with 19 killed amid 139 cases confirmed on Wednesday. (Mohammad Mohsenzadeh/Mizan News Agency via AP)

Virus response in Mideast tainted by political views of Iran

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Demonstrators chant slogans during ongoing protests, in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

How Donald Trump inspires young Iraqis to fight Iran’s corruption

By Rana Alsaadi

In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, photo, a man disinfects the shrine of Saint Masoumeh against coronavirus in the city of Qom 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. Iran's government said Monday that 12 people had died nationwide from the new coronavirus, rejecting claims of a much higher death toll of 50 by a lawmaker from the city of Qom that has been at the epicenter of the virus in the country. (Ahmad Zohrabi/ISNA via AP)

Iranian clerics keep shrines open, even as virus spreads

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, Shiite seminary students attend a lecture at &quot;Hawza&quot; seminary, in the holy shrine of Imam Ali, the son-in-law, and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and the first Imam of the Shiites, in Najaf, Iraq. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, turns 90 this year, and when he recently had surgery it sent chills around the country and beyond. What happens when al-Sistani is gone? Iran is likely to try to exploit the void to gain followers among Iraq’s Shiites. Standing in its way is the Hawza, the centuries-old institution of religious learning which al-Sistani heads and which follows its own tradition-bound rules. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Aging Shiite cleric a powerhouse in Iraq. What comes after?

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

Rockets strike near US Embassy in Baghdad; no injuries

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes questions from reporters during a flight from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., to Germany, Thursday, February 13, 2020. With tensions between the United States and Europe running high over numerous issues, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper are descending on the German city of Munich for an annual security forum. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

House panel sets date for Pompeo testimony on Iran

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary for Defense Mark Esper, second left, speaks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. NATO ministers, in a second day of meetings, will discuss building stability in the Middle East, the Alliance's support for Afghanistan and challenges posed by Russia's missile systems. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Iraq green-lights resumption of NATO training effort

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press