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FILE - In thisFILE - In this Tuesday, July 22, 2014, file photo, a sign is posted at a checkpoint belonging to the Islamic State group, captured from the Iraqi Army, at the main entrance of Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Arabic reads, &quot;Islamic State, the Emirate of Anbar, City of Rawah.&quot; Iraq’s Defense Ministry said Friday, Nov. 17, 2017 Iraqi forces have retaken the last IS-held town in the country, more than three years after the militant group stormed nearly a third of Iraqi territory.(AP Photo, File)

Iraqi forces retake the country’s last IS-held town

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

On Thursday, Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Salim al-Jubouri said that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, directly beneath flag, must disband the majority of the Iran-linked Shia paramilitary groups that fought alongside the army against the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Salim al-Jubouri warns of dangers of Iran-backed Shia militias

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Kurdish leaders remain committed to a political settlement but say their famed peshmerga militia forces are ready to take up arms to defend their homeland. (Associated Press/File)

Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdish delegate, urges U.S. to push Iraq deal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Illustration on Amrica as a global protector by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Some American allies only survive through U.S. protection

By Victor Davis Hanson

In this Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 frame grab from video, Iraqi security forces speak to shepherd Khalaf Luhaibi next to bones on the ground, in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State group, at an abandoned base near the northern town of Hawija, Iraq. Kirkuk governor Rakan Saed said Sunday that the bodies of civilians and security forces have been found at the mass grave that could contain up to 400 bodies. (Kirkuk Governor's Office via AP)

Coalition confident Baghdad can control Iranian-backed militias

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, people look at destroyed buildings after an earthquake at the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing more than one hundred people and injuring some 800 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, state media there said. (Pouria Pakizeh/ISNA via AP)

Powerful earthquake on Iran-Iraq border kills over 330

By Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Tasnim News Agency, relatives weep over the body of an earthquake victim, in Sarpol-e-Zahab, western Iran, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Authorities reported that a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Iraq-Iran border region on Monday and killed more than three hundred people in both countries, sent people fleeing their homes into the night and was felt as far west as the Mediterranean coast. (Farzad Menati/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

The Latest: Iran-Iraq quake death toll hits 430 in Iran

Associated Press

Grandfather, granddaughter create connection while cooking

By CATHERINE GODBEY - Associated Press

This frame grab from video provided Wednesday, Nov 8, 2017, by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows firing on militants' positions on the Iraq-Syria border. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that Islamic State militants have withdrawn from their last stronghold following a government offensive and that government forces and allied troops, including Iraqi fighters are combing Boukamal, a strategic town on the border with Iraq, Thursday. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

ISIS militants evacuate last stronghold in Syria to government

By Sarah el Deeb - Associated Press

Illustration on Iran's attacks on the Kurds in Iraq by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Smashing a critical American ally

By Ziva Dahl

In this Monday, Nov. 6, 2017 photo, U.S. Marines build a military site during a sandstorm in western Anbar, Iraq. The US-led coalition's newest outpost in the fight against the Islamic State group is in this dusty corner of western Iraq near the border with Syria where several hundred American Marines operate close to the battlefront, a key factor in the recent series of swift victories against the extremists. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

As caliphate crumbles, US builds outposts in western Iraq

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi denied claims he was lobbying the U.S. for military support for Iraq's Sunnis. (Associated Press)

Iraqi vice president warns of growing power of Iran-backed militias

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Mourners participate during a candlelight vigil held for the victims of a fatal shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Texas church massacre against Christians

By Renee Garfinkel

Violence has broken out in the border areas between Iraqi and Kurdish forces, with tensions high after the Kurds' failed attempt to form their own country. U.S. officials say Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has been working to defuse the situation. (Associated press)

Iraqi-Kurd feud escalates, but U.S. hopes to defuse tensions

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2016 file photo, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, center, attends a ceremony marking Police Day in Baghdad, Iraq. On Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in his first extensive interview with a major western media outlet, al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the mostly Shiite forces known as the Popular Mobilization Units and a designated terrorist according to the United States department of treasury, described a “strong” and lasting role for the forces under his command in Iraq, many closely supported by Iran. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Iraqi militia commander brushes off U.S. call to disband

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

US fights ACLU quest to represent American captured in Syria

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Masoud Barzani’s resignation leads to Kurdish infighting

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 25, 2017, photo, Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. points at a photograph of Marine Sgt. Michael Edward Bits of Ventura, Calif., the first military funeral he and his wife attended, and one of the many pictures of soldiers killed this century based in Camp Lejeune along a hallway leading to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. As President Trump argued about what he said to the family of a soldier killed in Niger, a North Carolina congressman was quietly doing what he's done more than 11,000 times: signing a condolence letter to that family and others. Republican Rep. Walter Jones began signing the letters to families in 2003 as penance for his 2002 vote supporting war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Penance’: NC congressman writes to families of dead troops

By MARTHA WAGGONER - Associated Press

In this Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 photo, water buffalo wade in the Chabaish marsh in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s southern marshes, a lush remnant of the cradle of civilization, were reborn after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein when residents dismantled dams he had built a decade earlier to drain the area in order to root out Shiite rebels. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraq’s vast marshes, reborn after Saddam, are in peril again

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

A staff member poses for photographs by looking at British artist John Keane's painting &quot;Bound&quot; during the media preview for the &quot;Age of Terror: Art since 9/11&quot; exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. The exhibition, which runs from Oct. 26 until May 28, 2018, considers artists' responses to war and conflict since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

London exhibition ‘Age of Terror’ explores art since 9/11

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press