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Kurdish separatist group says 11 killed in attack in Iraq

Associated Press

Protesters storm and burn the Iranian consulate building 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)

Iraqi protesters set fire to Iran consulate in southern city

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

A man holds a national flag while protesters burn the municipal complex during protests demanding better public services and jobs in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi protesters set fire to provincial government building

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Protesters set a tire on fire in front of the provincial council building during protests demanding better public services and jobs, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition on hundreds of protesters. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi PM orders probe into bloody Basra protests

Associated Press

Protesters flee as security forces disperse them from outside the provincial council building, during a demonstration demanding better public services and jobs, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018, in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraq’s new parliament meets as rival blocs vie for majority

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

A protestor holds a poster with a photo of Angela Merkel referring reading she is guilty of incitement in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, after several nationalist groups called for marches protesting the killing of a German man last week, allegedly by migrants from Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

The Latest: German police advise end of anti-migrant rally

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Pompeo speaks to Iraqi leaders at ‘this critical time’

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In this Friday, July 20, 2012, file photo, Iraqi soldiers patrol along the border between Syria and Iraq in Anbar province, Iraq. Several people were killed in a car bomb blast in a former stronghold of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, a security official said on Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Qasem al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press the attacker drove a booby-trapped vehicle into a joint security checkpoint managed by the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilization Forces at the southern entrance to the town of al-Qaim, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Syrian border. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Car bomb claimed by Islamic State kills 7 in western Iraq

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

A woman holds an oil lamp while chant slogans demanding better public services and jobs during a protest in front of the provincial council building in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Basra threatens vote to pull away from Iraq over oil profits

By Gilgamesh Nabeel and Tamara Emad — Special to The Washington Times

Pentagon identifies US soldier killed in Iraq

By Associated Press - Associated Press

A helicopter belonging to the international coalition forces takes off from a base outside Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

1 dead, 3 injured as U.S. helicopter crashes in Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This canal southeast of Baghdad is dry and filled with salt. Iraq, historically known as "The Land Between The Two Rivers," is struggling with the scarcity of water because of dams in Turkey and Iran, a lack of rainfall and aging hydrological infrastructure. The decreased water levels have dramatically affected agriculture and animal resources. (Associated Press/File)

Iraq’s water flow cut by dams in Iran, Turkey

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

German prosecutors probe Yazidi woman’s claim about IS man

By FRANK JORDANS and RASHID YAHYA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2018 file photo, a security official escorts family members of suicide bomber Hafeez Nawaz, with their faces covered for interrogation in Karachi, Pakistan. Nawaz killed149 people and wounding 300 others. At age 20, Hafeez Nawaz left his religious school in Karachi to join the Islamic State group in Afghanistan. Three years later he was back in Pakistan to carry out a deadly mission. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

IS deadly new front in Pakistan’s decades-old terror war

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Colorado Editorial Roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A federal agent removes items from an apartment following the arrest of Omar Ameen, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Ameen, a 45-year-old Iraqi refugee, was arrested on a warrant alleging that he killed an Iraqi policeman in 2014 while serving with the Islamic State terror organization. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

US officials: Iraqi refugee was part of terror group

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Iraq to reduce visa charges for Iranian pilgrims

Associated Press

In this Sunday, March 30, 2014, file photo, Islamic State group militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

‘ISIS 2.0:’ Semi-independent terror cells plot strikes after caliphate crumbles

By Carlo Muñoz and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Iran said to cancel visit by Iraq’s prime minister

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Fort Drum’s commander returns from Iraq deployment

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