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FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump greets members of the National Guard on the U.S.-Mexico border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Recent statements by Trump have fueled Democrats' sense that there's an opening among voters with strong military ties, and progressive veterans' organizations are working to bridge the gap with what has long been a reliably red constituency. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Democrats make play for veteran and military support as Trump homes in on GOP nomination

By James Pollard - Associated Press

In this July 30, 2020, photo, former President George W. Bush speaks during the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool) **FILE**

Feds seek 15-year sentence for Iraqi immigrant who sought to assassinate George W. Bush

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Toby Keith performs at ACM Presents an All-Star Salute to the Troops on April 7, 2024, in Las Vegas. Keith, who died on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, of cancer at age 62, is being celebrated for his immense catalog of songs. But his 2002 track “Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)" may be remembered most. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Toby Keith wrote all sorts of country songs. His legacy might be post-9/11 American anger

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

Iraqis attend the funeral of Popular Mobilization Forces fighters killed in the U.S. airstrikes at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Biden’s strikes in Iraq strain ties with government in Baghdad

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this image provided the Ministry of Defence, an RAF Typhoon aircraft takes off to conduct further strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (AS1 Jake Green/Ministry of Defence via AP)

What to know about the U.S. strikes in Iraq and Syria and its attacks with the U.K. in Yemen

By Bassem Mroue and Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp - Associated Press

Members of Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces clean the rubble after a U.S. airstrike in al-Qaim, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. The U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Friday that the U.S. forces conducted airstrikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and affiliated militia groups. (AP Photo/Popular Mobilization Forces Media Office)

Russia joins Iran allies in condemning U.S. airstrikes, warns of escalation

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown and Marine Corp. Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black watch as an Army carry team moves the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Ga. during a casualty return at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Sanders was killed in a drone attack in Jordan on Jan. 28. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

An Iranian-backed militia official downplays the U.S. strikes in Iraq, hints at deescalation

By Abdulrahman Zeyad and Ali Jabar - Associated Press

This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during flight operations in the Red Sea, Jan. 22, 2024. The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi sites in Yemen on Saturday, Feb. 3, in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups in the region. (Kaitlin Watt/U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S., Britain strike Yemen’s Houthis in a new wave, retaliating for attacks by Iran-backed militants

By Lolita C. Baldor And Tara Copp - Associated Press

In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a B-1B Lancer flies over the Persian Gulf Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The U.S. Air Force said Sunday it flew a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel amid ongoing tensions with Iran as its nuclear deal with world powers remains in tatters. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris via AP)

U.S. launches airstrikes on Iranian military units, militias a week after attack killed 3 Americans

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

United States beating back Iran illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

U.S. must eliminate Iraqi Shiite militias’ Popular Mobilization Forces through targeted killings

By David L. Phillips

Brig. Yahya Rasool Abdullah, an Iraqi joint command spokesman, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. &quot;It is a new tactic being used by the members of this terrorist group, using big car bombs against the troops that impact the civilians to inflame the public and to convey a wrong message to the world that the joint forces and the international coalition are behind the killing and bombings,&quot; he told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqi military protests U.S. retaliatory strikes targeting militias

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Biden following Obama's Iran strategy illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Biden won’t acknowledge the failure of Obama’s Iran strategy

By Saeed Ghasseminejad

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, on Oct. 12, 2023. Three American troops were killed and "many" were wounded Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, in a drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden said. He blamed Iran-backed militia groups for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. U.S. officials identified Tower 22 as the site of the attack. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Biden pressed to act after deadly strike on U.S. troops; Iran-backed militants trigger turning point

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Members of an Iraqi Shiite militant group attend the funeral of a fighter with the Kataib Hezbollah, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

After attacks, U.S., Iraq discuss future of American deployment

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Hezbollah supporter holds up a picture that shows portraits of slain Iran's Quds force General Qassem Soleimani, top, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, during a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of Soleimani assassination, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

U.S. military strikes Iran-backed Iraqi militias after attack that wounded American troops

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Emergency services work at a building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. Syrian and Iranian state media outlets say an Israeli strike on t Damascus killed four Iranian advisers. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

U.S. troops in Iraq receive treatment after militia shelling as region’s tensions mount

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Emergency services clear the rubble of the house of Peshraw Dizayi that was hit in Iranian missile strikes in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Dizayi, a prominent local businessman, was killed in one of the Irbil strikes along with members of his family. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann/Metrography)

Pakistan recalls ambassador to Iran over airstrike that killed 2 people

By Munir Ahmed and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Syrians look at an abandoned medical facility in the village of Talteta, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, that was hit by Iranian missiles late Monday night, according to a voluntary rescue group White Helmets. Iran fired missiles late Monday at what it claimed was Israeli "spy headquarters" near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Iraq recalls its ambassador, summons Iran’s charge d’affaires over strikes in Irbil

By Salar Salim and Omar Albam - Associated Press

FILE - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Turkey's president has vowed to widen military operations against groups linked to Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria, days after nine soldiers were killed in an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Turkey’s Erdogan vows to widen operations against Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq

Associated Press

In this image from body camera video during the Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack on Israel, a Hamas fighter holds a Russian-designed 9M32 Strela anti-aircraft missile. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel shows the militant group has amassed a diverse patchwork arsenal of weapons from around the world – much of it smuggled past a 17-year blockade that was aimed at stopping just such a military buildup. (South First Responders via AP)

Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea

By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press