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U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit atop a hill in the desert outside the village of Baghouz, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. U.S.-backed Syrian forces are clearing two villages in eastern Syria of remaining Islamic State militants who are hiding among the local population, and detaining others attempting to flee with the civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

US-backed Syria force says IS territorial defeat is near

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

United States Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan talks to the media at a meeting of ministers of Defense during the International Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (Tobias Hase/dpa via AP) ** FILE **

US: Time to expand the international coalition against IS

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 photo, pictures of militiamen who died fighting the Islamic State group over the past four years and weapons are on display in the Popular Mobilization Forces War Museum on al-Mutanabi Street, Baghdad, Iraq. The museum is meant to honor the fallen but it also underscores the Iran-backed Shiite militias’ growing clout in the country. Their political and military might soared after they helped the government defeat IS and they’re now accused of building a parallel state within Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

In heart of Baghdad, IS war museum honors fallen militiamen

By ZEINA KARAM and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, left, talks to NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for the media during a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Patrick Shanahan tries to smooth ruffled feathers in Iraq over Donald Trump’s troop remarks

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

UN envoy calls for end to political infighting in Iraq

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan speaks with the media as he waits for the arrival of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon's top official, Shanahan, has arrived in Afghanistan to meet with U.S. commanders and Afghan leaders amid a push for peace with the Taliban. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon official assures Iraqis of limited US military role

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Russia repatriates 27 children of IS members from Iraq

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UN warns Islamic State losses shouldn’t lead to complacency

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 1978 file photo, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. Forty years ago, Iran's ruling shah left his nation for the last time and an Islamic Revolution overthrew the vestiges of his caretaker government. The effects of the 1979 revolution, including the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ensuing hostage crisis, reverberate through decades of tense relations between Iran and America. (AP Photo, File)

Key moments in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Dec. 10, 2018 photo, Nieves Ribullen speaks during a interview at his home in Punto Fijo, Venezuela. Ribullen, a Venezuelan oil worker sick of struggling to get by as his country falls apart, is betting it all on far-away job in Kurdistan to give his family a better life.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Oil workers flee Venezuela’s crisis for a better life

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives in the House chamber before giving his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

EDITORIAL: The president’s eye on Iran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is seated before a meeting for the Syria Small Group during the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS meeting, at the State Department, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump predicts all IS territory will be cleared next week

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 22, 2014 file photo, shiite pilgrims pass a poster of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as they head to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in Baghdad, Iraq. On Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, Al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric, expressed his criticism of President Donald Trump's recent statement that U.S. troops should stay in Iraq to keep an eye on neighboring Iran. He is the latest Iraqi official to criticize Trump's remarks. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Top Iraqi cleric rejects Trump’s plan for US troops in Iraq

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS meeting at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump: Syria pullout will not spark ISIS resurgence

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, friends and relatives of Alaa Mashzoub light candles at his assassination site in Karbala, Iraq. Alaa Mashzoub, the Iraqi novelist who was gunned down this week in Karbala, was a secular civil society activist who used his bike to get around the Shiite holy city's infamous traffic and road closures. He was also an outspoken critic of foreign interferences in Iraqi affairs Iraq and political meddling by powerful militias backed by Iran. On Saturday, he was gunned down by unknown assailants who silenced him with 13 bullets as he rode his bicycle home for the last time. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Slain Iraqi novelist criticized foreign meddling, militias

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

President Trump has cited the large American contingent deployed at the Al-Asad air base in western Iraq, where he visited the day after Christmas, as one key reason the U.S. can afford to pull out 2,000 troops battling the Islamic State in Syria. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Trump remarks cloud talks on new U.S. troop deal with Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

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Iraqi leaders slam Donald Trump’s comments over using country as base

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks to reporters onboard Air Force One, on his way back to the White House in Washington from a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Iraq's President Barham Salih spoke Monday at a forum in Baghdad slamming comments by Trump in which he said he wants to keep U.S. troops in Iraq &quot;to watch Iran.&quot; Salih said the U.S. president did not ask Iraq's permission for American troops stationed there to watch Iran. He said the Iraqi constitution forbids the use of Iraq as a base to threaten the interests or security of neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Iraqi president hits back at Trump over US army presence

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Newly elected Iraq President Barham Salih, center, leaves the parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Iraq's parliament elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the country's new president on Tuesday, a step toward forming a new government nearly five months after national elections. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ** FILE **

Iraq says U.S. military’s plan to extend presence to deter Iran needs to be renegotiated

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraqi novelist gunned down in southern city

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press