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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Iran's Chief of Staff of Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, speaks during a press conference with Syria's defense minister Gen. Ali Ayoub, center, and Iraqi army commander, Gen. Osman Ghanemi in Damascus, Syria, Monday, March 18, 2019. Syria's defense minister slammed what he called the &quot;illegitimate&quot; U.S. military presence in his country, vowing that Syria has a right to self-defense. (SANA via AP)

Syria’s defense minister slams ‘illegitimate’ US presence

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces remove concrete blast walls in Abu Nawas street in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Lawmakers appeal to Trump not to cut Iraqi aid

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Armed and dangerous: Pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces militants say it’s time for U.S. troops to leave Iraq and are said to be spreading conspiracy theories that the Trump administration is helping the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Iran backed Popular Mobilization Forces pressures U.S. to leave Iraq

By Adam Lucente — Special to The Washington Times

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waves to journalists before his meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Barham Salih at Salam Palace in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 11, 2019. Rouhani is visiting Iraq, seeking to boost ties between the two neighboring states and possibly secure Iraq’s help in bypassing U.S. sanctions the Trump administration re-imposed last year. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iranian president meets Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric

Associated Press

FILE - in this Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, file photo, Iraqi lawmakers attend a parliament session in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's parliament on Thursday, Jan. 24 has approved a national budget for 2019 after weeks of wrangling over how to apportion revenues between the regions damaged by the war against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Iraqi parliament weighs bill to force U.S. troops out

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Trump to present Medal of Honor to late Army staff sergeant

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

In this Nov. 24, 2015, file photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, listens to his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif prior to a meeting in Tehran, Iran. Rouhani is planning to make his first official visit to Iraq Monday, March 11, 2019, as he faces mounting pressure from hard-liners at home in the wake of the unravelling of the nuclear deal under the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran’s Hassan Rouhani seeks to boost ties on first visit to Baghdad

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

In this Feb. 10, 2019 photo, people eat in a restaurant at a shopping mall in Baghdad, Iraq. For the first time in years, Iraq is not at war. The defeat of the Islamic State group in late 2017 after a ruinous four-year conflict has given the population a moment of respite, and across the capital Baghdad there is a guarded sense of hope. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Across Baghdad, a moment of respite and guarded hope

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

In this Nov. 24, 2015, file photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, listens to his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif prior to a meeting in Tehran, Iran. Rouhani is planning to make his first official visit to Iraq Monday, March 11, 2019, as he faces mounting pressure from hard-liners at home in the wake of the unravelling of the nuclear deal under the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

First time in Baghdad: Iran’s president to visit Iraq

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

Officials: Bomb in Iraq’s Mosul kills 13-year-old girl

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, a Kurdish security officer orders a displaced man from Hawija to sit down as they try to determine if the men being held were associated with the Islamic State group, at a Kurdish screening center in Dibis, Iraq. In a report released Wednesday, March 6, 2019, Human Rights Watch said Iraqi and Kurdistan Regional Government authorities have charged hundreds of children with terrorism for alleged affiliation with IS, often using torture to coerce confessions. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)

Group: Iraq is torturing children to coerce confessions

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, file photo, Baseh Hammo, a Yazidi woman who escaped enslavement by Islamic State group militants, shows the injuries to her hands that was carried out by an Albanian who forced her to put her hands on hot asphalt, then stomped on them with his boots, at a relatives's tent in a camp for displaced people outside Dahuk, Iraq. Yazidi women enslaved by the Islamic State group who escaped captivity say there could be hundreds of other women still missing, women who may never return home. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Hopes for missing Yazidis dim as Islamic State defeat looms

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

Former Yazidi captives of Islamic State arrive in Iraq

Associated Press

Children evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants walk at a screening center after collecting food, outside Baghouz, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Evacuations have continued amid a standoff between the militants and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Iraq says it can help return IS fighters to their countries

Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Landfall’ by Thomas Mallon

By Claire Hopley

French president Emmanuel Macron, right, greets Iraqi President Barham Saleh before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Saleh is on a two-day visit to France with a focus on the country's security and the fight against the Islamic State group in the region. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Iraq to try IS detainees, including 13 French nationals

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, file photo, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters watch as an airstrike hits territory still held by Islamic State militants in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

From Syria, ISIS slips into Iraq to fight another day

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Philip Issa - Associated Press

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Humvee stands by as a truck that is part of a convoy evacuating hundreds out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, passes in Baghouz, eastern Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. The evacuation signals the end of a week long standoff and opens the way to U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recapture the territory. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

More than 150 ISIS militants handed over to Iraq from Syria

By Sarah El Deeb and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Vermont National Guard leader hopefuls promise change

By WILSON RING - Associated Press

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit outside a building as fight against Islamic State militants continue in the village of Baghouz, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

‘Taking their last breath’: IS hides among Syrian civilians

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press