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In this April 16, 2017, photo Christian militiamen stand guard during Easter mass in Qaraqosh, outside Mosul, Iraq. Synagogues, mosques, churches and other houses of worship are routinely at risk of attack in many parts of the world. And so worshippers themselves often feel the need for visible, tangible protection even as they seek the divine. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

AP Photos: Earthly protection for those seeking the divine

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

A U.S. soldier sits on an armored vehicle on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. President Donald Trump expects to decide "very quickly" whether to remove U.S. troops from war-torn Syria, saying their primary mission was to defeat the Islamic State group and "we've almost completed that task." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

ISIS insurgency, sleeper cells to take years to defeat

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 22, 2018 photo, Ardawan, 4, eats melon on the kitchen floor of an orphanage for Yazidi children, in Sheikhan, Iraq. The child's father and four siblings have been missing since August 2014, when Islamic State militants took over northern and western Iraq; he lives at the orphanage with his mother and two remaining siblings. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Iraqi minority shuns children born of IS rape, enslavement

By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SALAR SALIM - Associated Press

In this January 19, 2018 photo, billboards from Hezbollah's committee for the support of the Islamic resistance, that shows a Hezbollah fighter while holding the group's yellow banner and the Lebanon's national flag, are displayed on the Beirut airport highway, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. The Trump administration will resume crushing oil sanctions on Iran in early November, 208, a step that aims to strain Tehran’s funding of its regional allies. Arabic on the poster reads, &quot;A project to equip a holy warrior, top, He who equips an invader is part of the battle (a saying from Islam's Prophet Muhammad), center, we thank you for your contribution, bottom.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US sanctions on Iran pressure Tehran’s regional allies

By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Former Iraqi refugee Nadeen Yousef creates hand crafts to sell at the West Side Bazaar, where refugees sell clothes, crafts and food, on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. Thousands of refugees have settled in Buffalo in recent years even as others have left the city. Some locals worry that the Trump administration's policies reducing the numbers of new arrivals will harm the city's economy. (AP Photo/ Michael Hill)

Trump refugee cuts slow resurgence of cities like Buffalo

By MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, Hisham al-Dahabi, center, a social worker and philanthropist visits with students at the orphanage he runs in the heart of Baghdad, Iraq. Prime Minister-designate Adel Abdul-Mahdi opened an online portal for anyone to apply to run Iraq’s 22 ministries and take over the posts that have come to be associated with patronage and graft. Al-Dahabi said he applied reluctantly to be the minister of labor and social affairs. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Want to run an Iraqi ministry? Apply online, PM says

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Senior officers from the Iranian military plotted on the front line in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. Iran participated with Russia in the infamous 2016 rape of Aleppo, killing hundreds of civilians while conquering the besieged rebel stronghold. (Associated Press/File)

Iran terrorists lurk in embassies

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

US briefs Iraq Chaldean head, Vatican on aid after critique

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018 photo, followers of the ancient Mandaean religious sect perform their rituals along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for them, in Baghdad, Iraq. Mandaeanism follows the teachings of John the Baptist, a saint in both the Christian and Islamic traditions, and their rituals revolve around water. Iraq’s soaring water pollution is threatening the religious rites of the tight-knit community, already devastated by 15 years of war. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Water pollution in Iraq threatens Mandaean religious rites

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Slovakia to send soldiers to Iraq to train security forces

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Chaldean cardinal says promised US aid for Iraq hasn’t come

By NICOLE WINFIELD and SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

In this Aug. 28, 2018, photo, Dawlat Suleiman poses for a portrait in her family's tent at Dakuk Camp, near Kirkuk, Iraq. At 12 years old, Dawlat has lost her childhood. With her parents gone, she must serve as a replacement mother caring for five of her siblings, a family of kids fending for themselves amid the destruction of post-war Iraq. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Children of Islamic State group live under a stigma in Iraq

By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and MAYA ALLERUZZO - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file image posted on Monday, June 30, 2014, by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, north Syria. With Islamic State's near total defeat on the battle field, the extremist group has reverted to what it was before its spectacular series of conquests in 2014 _ a shadowy terror network that targets vulnerable civilian populations and exploits state weaknesses to incite on sectarian strife. But a recent surge in false claims of responsibility for attacks also signals that the group is struggling to stay relevant after losing its proto-state and its dominance of the international news agenda. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

IS reverting to insurgency tactics after losing caliphate

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Turkey to reopen its consulates in Iraq’s Basra and Mosul

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This April 19, 2018, photo provided by Living Resources Corporation shows Amanda Rivenburg. Rivenburg was killed when a limousine she was riding in crashed Saturday, Oct. 6, in Schoharie, N.Y. (Cathi Butryn/Living Resources Corporation via AP)

A look at limo crash victims: Veteran died on 34th birthday

By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

In this Sept. 29, 2018 photo, Hadi Mohammed sits with his 9 year old son Mohammed Ghaleb, as he displays a photo of his son as a baby in Baghdad, in their Lincoln, Neb. apartment. Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Stricter US screening splits anguished refugee families

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this Sept. 29, 2018 photo, Hadi Mohammed sits with his 9 year old son Mohammed Ghaleb, as he displays a photo of his son as a baby in Baghdad, in their Lincoln, Neb. apartment. Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Trump refugee policy leaves thousands stranded outside US

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Bombs in former IS strongholds in Iraq kill 1, wound 16

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Ceaseless persecution marks the Yazidis’ history

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The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, left, and the committee secretary Olav Njolstad, announce the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize in the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Friday, OCt. 5, 2018. The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

The Latest: Lawyer Clooney says client’s Nobel sends message

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