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In this March 11, 2019, file photo, Iraqi President Barham Salih, right, walks with visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, before their meeting at Salam Palace in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq is seeking to reclaim a leadership role in the Arab world after decades of conflict. It is focusing on a centrist policy and its top leaders are determined to maintain good relations with both Iran and the United States. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

After ISIS war, Iraq seeks to reclaim status in Arab world

By Zeina Karam and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Iraq says it tried to stop US from blacklisting Iran corps

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27-year-old German Jennifer W. covers her face as she arrives at a court in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The woman is accused of letting a 5-year-old girl she and her husband held as a slave in Islamic State-held territory in Iraq die of thirst. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)

German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

President Donald Trump holds up a chart documenting ISIS land loss in Iraq and Syria as delivers remarks at the Lima Army Tank Plant, Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in Lima, Ohio. In a campaign that spanned five years and two U.S. presidencies, the American military engineered the destruction of the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed empire in Iraq and Syria. That’s a military success, but not one that’s certain to last. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Pentagon nears ‘Defeat ISIS’ coalition extension as Trump weighs Syria withdrawal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE-- In this Sept. 24, 2017 file photo, surface-to-surface missiles and a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are displayed by the Revolutionary Guard in an exhibition marking the anniversary of outset of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran. On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Trump administration designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization” in an unprecedented move against a national armed force. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps went from being a domestic security force with origins in the 1979 Islamic Revolution to a transnational fighting force. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

AP Explains: Long reach of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

By AYA BATRAWY and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 11, 2019 file photo, Iranian Revolutionary Guard members attend a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi, or Freedom, Square in Tehran, Iran. On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Trump administration designated Irans Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization in an unprecedented move against a national armed force. Irans Revolutionary Guard Corps went from being a domestic security force with origins in the 1979 Islamic Revolution to a transnational fighting force. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran retaliates after revolutionary guard terror designation

By Lauren Toms, Lauren Meier and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Iraq Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim raises the Saudi flag during the opening ceremony of the Saudi consulate in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 4, 2019. Saudi Arabia is opening four new consulates in Iraq and plans to invest one billion dollars for projects in Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Saudis open consulate in Iraq in sign of improving ties

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Senate takes step to fill senior ranks at State Department

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and David Norquist, far right, the Defense Department's budget chief, arrive to testify at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2020 Pentagon budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Lawmakers are concerned about military construction projects that could lose funding this year to pay for President Donald Trump's border wall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patrick Shanahan lobbies Iraqi leaders to allow U.S. troops to stay

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, March 20, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, for a trip to visit an Army tank plant in Lima, Ohio, and a fundraising event in Canton, Ohio. Trump on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, will present his eighth Medal of Honor at the White House, to the family of Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins, who gave his life in 2007 to save fellow soldiers from an Iraqi suicide bomber. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Donald Trump to present Medal of Honor to family of Travis Atkins, Iraq war hero

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Trevor Oliver accepts the Medal of Honor from President Donald Trump, presented to his father, Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins in recognition for conspicuous gallantry in Iraq in June 2007, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday March 27, 2019, in Washington.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump awards posthumous Medal of Honor to Iraq war hero’s family

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Baghdad is filled with peaceful activity late at night more than a year after Iraq declared the Islamic State defeated. In Ninevah province, however, it's a different story: Iraqis say the terrorist group remains a threat to daily life. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS still threat to former Iraq refugees

By Gilgamesh Nabeel and Mahmoud al-Najjar - Special to The Washington Times

Shiite Muslim worshippers light candles as they pray for the victims of a sunken ferry, outside the golden-domed Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 22, 2019. A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year sank in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing dozens of people, mostly women and children, officials said. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)

Iraq parliament votes to sack official after ferry sinking

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U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters pose for a photo on a rooftop overlooking Baghouz, Syria, after the SDF declared the area free of Islamic State militants after months of fighting on Saturday, March 23, 2019. The elimination of the last Islamic State stronghold in Baghouz brings to a close a grueling final battle that stretched across several weeks and saw thousands of people flee the territory and surrender in desperation, and hundreds killed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The Latest: US commander: IS fighters could ‘re-emerge’

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Smoke rises from a strike on Baghouz, Syria, on the Islamic State group's last piece of territory on Friday, March 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US-allied Syrian force declares victory over Islamic State

By PHILIP ISSA and ANDREA ROSA and MAYA ALLERUZZO - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo released on April 25, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, young boys known as the &quot;caliphate cubs&quot; hold their rifles as they parade after graduating from a religious school, in Tal Afar, near Mosul city, north Iraq. The Arabic words, center, read: &quot;A parade of caliphate cubs after their graduation from a religious school.&quot; (Militant website via AP, File)

Timeline of the rise and fall of the Islamic State group

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this frame grab from a video released In this Oct. 15, 2017, file photo and provided by Furat FM, a Syrian Kurdish activist-run media group, shows Syrian Islamic State group fighters who have surrendered, at a base of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Raqqa, Syria. (Furat FM, via AP, File)

Q&A: The end of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate”

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

This image taken from video provided by Mohammed Issam shows boats trying to rescue people in the Tigris River after a overloaded ferry sank on Thursday, March 21, 2019 near Mosul, Iraq. Col. Hussam Khalil, head of the Civil Defense in the northern Nineveh province, told The Associated Press the accident occurred as scores of people were out in a tourist area celebrating Nowruz, which marks the Kurdish new year and the arrival of spring. (Mohammed Issam via AP)

Protesters block Iraq president’s pathway over ferry sinking

By FARID ABDULWAHED and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump holds up a chart documenting ISIS land loss in Iraq and Syria as delivers remarks at the Lima Army Tank Plant, Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in Lima, Ohio. In a campaign that spanned five years and two U.S. presidencies, the American military engineered the destruction of the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed empire in Iraq and Syria. That’s a military success, but not one that’s certain to last. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Analysis: Victory over Islamic State may be short-lived

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Ex-Marine, citing PTSD, gets prison for parking spat bombing

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press