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Iraqi Kurds participate in parliamentary elections in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018. Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region held long-delayed parliamentary elections on Sunday, a year after a vote for independence sparked a punishing backlash from Baghdad, leaving Kurdish leaders deeply divided. (AP Photo/Salar Salim)

Iraq Kurds far from independence despite referendum

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Turkey renews mandate for military operations in Syria, Iraq

Associated Press

Demonstrators hold national flags and a poster with an image of a protester who was killed during previous demonstrations, demanding better public services and jobs, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Masked gunmen shot dead Soad al-Ali, a human rights activist and mother of four, outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) ** FILE **

Pentagon offers military support in U.S. Consulate evacuation in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Demonstrators hold national flags and a poster with an image of a protester who was killed during previous demonstrations, demanding better public services and jobs, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Masked gunmen shot dead Soad al-Ali, a human rights activist and mother of four, outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) ** FILE **

Iraqi official says U.S. wrong to blame Iran for rocket attacks on American consulate

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former Iraqi President Fuad Masum, center, leaves the presidency headquarters in the peace palace after the inauguration ceremony for the newly elected Iraqi President Barham Salih, center left, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. Iraq's new president takes office after tapping Adel Abdul-Mahdi, 76, an independent Shiite politician and former vice president for the post of prime minister. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Barham Salih named Iraq president, Adel Abdul-Mahdi to be prime minister

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2018 photo, fans of slain former beauty queen, fashion model and social media star Tara Fares left flowers and candles at her gravesite, in Najaf, Iraq. Fares won fame in conservative, Muslim-majority Iraq with outspoken opinions on personal freedom. Last week, she was shot and killed at the wheel of her white Porsche on a busy Baghdad street. The violence reverberated across Iraq and follows the slaying of a female activist in the southern city of Basra and the mysterious deaths of two well-known beauty experts. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Deaths of Instagram model, other women shock Iraq

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Iraq's new President Barham Salih, center right, walks with new Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, center left, in the parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Iraq's new president has tasked veteran Shiite politician Abdul-Mahdi with forming a new government nearly five months after national elections were held, state TV reported late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq’s president takes office, independent tapped as PM

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2015, file photo, Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, center, inspects a first Chinese drone to be used by the Iraqi Air Force before sending it to bomb Islamic State group positions at an airbase in Kut, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Across the Middle East, countries locked out of purchasing U.S.-made drones due to rules over excessive civilian casualties are being wooed by Chinese arms dealers, who are world's main distributor of armed drones. The sales are helping expand Chinese influence across a region crucial to American security interests and bolstering Beijing's ambitions of being a world leader in high-tech arms sales. (AP Photo, File)

Chinese armed drones now flying across Mideast battlefields

By JON GAMBRELL and GERRY SHIH - Associated Press

The Latest: Shiite independent tapped to be next Iraqi PM

Associated Press

Two Iranian worshippers hold up anti-American and anti-Israeli placards, in a rally to condemn Saturday's terror attack in Ahvaz, after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. On Saturday, armed men disguised as soldiers killed 24 and wounded 60 people in an attack targeting a military parade in Ahvaz, southern Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran fires ballistic missiles at Syria militants over attack

By NASSSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Philippine forces pressed their offensive to drive out militants linked to the Islamic State group after days of fighting left corpses in the streets and hundreds of civilians begging for rescue from a besieged southern city of Marawi last year. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS fighters in Philippines threaten U.S. anti-terror plan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, Revolutionary Guard members carry a wounded comrade after a shooting during their parade marking the 38th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018. Gunmen attacked the military parade, killing at least eight members of the elite Revolutionary Guard and wounding 20 others, state media said. (AP Photo/ISNA, Shayan Haji Najaf)

Militants attack Iran military parade, killing at least 25

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

US tags Iran anew as top terror sponsor, global attacks fall

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

Iranians attend funeral for soldiers killed in Iran-Iraq war

Associated Press

President Donald Trump greets Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi upon his arrival to the White House in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iraq, Trump administration disagree on terms of travel ban deal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protesters storm and burn the Basra Government building during a demonstration demanding better public services and jobs in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Angry protesters stormed the Iranian consulate in the southern city of Basra Friday, setting a fire inside as part of ongoing demonstrations that have turned deadly in the past few days, a security official and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraq’s embattled PM visits Basra after week-long protest

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Security forces patrol in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. Iraqi security forces deployed on the streets of Basra on Saturday, a day after protesters in the southern city stormed the Iranian consulate and torched government buildings in violence that rocked the oil-exporting Shiite heartland and sparked alarm across a conflict-weary country. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Calm returns to Iraq’s Basra after week of violent protests

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Iran Guard claims missile attack on separatist Kurds in Iraq

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

Protesters trample a portrait of Iran's supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the storming and burning the Iranian consulate in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Hundreds of angry protesters in Basra took to the streets on Thursday night. Some clashed with security forces, lobbing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to a government building as well as the offices of Shiite militias. At least three people were shot dead in confrontations with security forces. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

The Latest: Security forces deploy in Iraq’s city of Basra

Associated Press

Protesters trample a portrait of Iran's supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the storming and burning the Iranian consulate in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Hundreds of angry protesters in Basra took to the streets on Thursday night. Some clashed with security forces, lobbing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to a government building as well as the offices of Shiite militias. At least three people were shot dead in confrontations with security forces. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Security forces deploy in Iraq’s Basra following violence

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press