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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Daesh: Islamic State’s Holy War’ by Anthony Tucker-Jones

By Joshua Sinai

In this Thursday, May 9, 2019, file photo released by the U.S. Navy, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Suez Canal in Egypt. The aircraft carrier and its strike group are deploying to the Persian Gulf on orders from the White House to respond to an unspecified threat from Iran. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Dan Snow, U.S. Navy via AP)

US deployments across Mideast factor in Iran tensions

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Iraq awards gas recovery contract to China’s CPECC

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FILE - in this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 file photo, laborers walk in the Nihran Bin Omar field north near Basra, Iraq. Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said Tuesday, May 7, 2019 that he has instructed Iraq's Oil Ministry to finalize an agreement with global energy giants ExxonMobil and PetroChina to lead a $53 billion megaproject to boost oil production. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, File)

Iraq planning $53B megaproject with ExxonMobil, PetroChina

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In this May 3, 2019, file photo released by the U.S. Navy, an F/A-18E Super Hornet from VFA 25 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The U.S. is dispatching the USS Abraham Lincoln and other military resources to the Middle East following "clear indications" that Iran and its proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region, according to a defense official on May 5, 2019. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Singley/US Navy via AP)

USS Abraham Lincoln carrier deployed over Iran ‘credible threat’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Friday, April 26, 2019, photo, Iraqi actors prepare to perform their roles in &quot;The Hotel,&quot; at a filming location in Baghdad, Iraq. A Baghdad studio is filming Iraq's first TV drama in 7 years, as the arts come to life again in the capital after more than a decade of war. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi TV drama back after 7 years, just in time for Ramadan

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 23, 2019, photo, a farmer stands near a water pump on his farm in Youssifiyah, Iraq. In the farming region, just south of the capital, canals that were empty last year are flush with water, and wells that were dug 24 meters deep to reach a sinking water table are producing water at just 6 meters depth. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Rains like no other: Iraq is tested in era of climate change

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Duckworth returns to Iraq for 1st time since being shot down

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This image made from video posted on a militant website on Monday, April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. Al-Baghdadi acknowledged in his first video since June 2014 that IS lost the war in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz that was captured last month by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (Al-Furqan media via AP)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, appears in video for first time in 5 years

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhahkim, right, meets with his visiting Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Turkish FM visits Iraq to discuss trade, water

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FILE - In this March 2, 2019 file photo, Dilbar Ali Ravu, 10, is kissed by his aunt Dalal Ravu when Yazidi children were reunited with their families in Iraq after five years of captivity with the Islamic State group, at a truck stop on the road between Sinjar and Dohuk, Iraq. The Yazidi community in Iraq said Thursday, April 25, 2019, that it will accept the survivors of the Islamic State group's campaign of enslavement and welcome the children conceived through rape into the minority community. (AP Photo/Philip Issa, File)

Iraq: Yazidis to accept children of IS rape into community

By SALAR SALIM - Associated Press

Iraq Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim, right, and visiting Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation, Yury Borisov, exchange documents after they signed trade agreements in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

High-level Russian delegation in Iraq to discuss trade ties

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In this Feb. 26, 2019 photo, Nour Ahmed, who says says her husband was snatched by unknown assailants two years ago, displays her marriage document, issued by the Islamic State group, at a legal clinic supported by the Norwegian Refugee Council, in west Mosul, Iraq. Thousands of Iraqi families face crushing social and legal discrimination -- including Ahmed -- all because of the choices their male relatives made under the Islamic State group’s rule. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

IS legacy of guilt weighs heavily on Iraqi widows, children

By PHILIP ISSA and SALAR SALIM - Associated Press

Police vehicles surround the apartment complex believed to be associated with a car crash suspect in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, April 24, 2019. A witness to a California crash that injured eight people said Wednesday he was waiting for a traffic light to turn green when a Toyota Corolla plowed through the intersection at a high speed, sending pedestrians flying into the air in the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyvale. (AP Photo/Cody Glenn)

Isaiah Peoples held on 8 counts of attempted murder after driving into Silicon Valley intersection

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While Nadia Murad Basee Taha, right, listens, Amal Clooney speaks during a Security Council meeting on sexual violence at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Amal Clooney: Prosecute Islamic State extremists for rape

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Amal Clooney speaks during a Security Council meeting on sexual violence at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Amal Clooney seeking Islamic State woman for Yazidi crimes

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Iraq summit brings together rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran

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Soldiers in Dwekh Nawsha, an Assyrian Christian militia, in Baqofah, Iraq, in August 2015. The town was opposite then Islamic State-occupied Batnaya at the time. (Adam Lucente/Special to The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Donald Trump to help Iraq Christians punish Islamic State

By Adam Lucente — Special to The Washington Times

Iraq Time Bomb Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

If problems in Iraq aren’t resolved, there will be another insurgency

By Gary Anderson

Iraqi prime minister makes first visit to Saudi Arabia

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