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FILE - In this Friday, March 24, 2017, file photo, civil protection rescue teams work on the debris of a destroyed house to recover the body of people killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul are still burying their dead after a U.S. airstrike allegedly killed more than 100 people last week, and rights groups are expressing alarm over a recent spike in civilian deaths. Iraqi officials have defended their conduct in the war against the Islamic State group, and their advice to civilians to shelter in place as U.S.-backed forces seek to drive the extremists from their last urban stronghold in the country. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

US opens formal investigation into civilian deaths in Mosul

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool Abdullah, an Iraqi joint command spokesman, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ** FILE **

US denies loosening rules for avoiding civilian casualties

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

3 Iraqis living in US accused of hiding ties to kidnapper

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

Rescue teams work on the debris of a destroyed house to recover the bodies of people killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants. (Associated Press)

U.S. commanders: New rules not to blame for civilian deaths in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Rebuilding the Iraqi Economy Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Iraq after ISIS will boast economic opportunity

By Stephen Hollingshead

Staff Sgt. Ricardo Branch was punished for emailing his superiors about a possible leak.

Ricardo Branch, Army sergeant, faces discharge for email to brass about classified data

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the Meeting of the Ministers of the Global Coalition on the Defeat of ISIS, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. Top officials from the 68-nation coalition fighting the Islamic State group are looking to increase pressure on the group as U.S.-backed forces move closer to retaking Mosul. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

US tells allies to do more amid new offensive against IS

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Iraqi forces are advancing against Islamic State militants in Mosul as representatives from 68 countries fighting the terrorist group converge on Washington for a two-day summit to discuss the road ahead. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump at helm for summit on strategy to fight ISIS

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sees the United States "more engaged" in the fight against the Islamic State under President Trump. (Associated Press)

Haider al-Abadi, Iraq prime minister, sees U.S. ‘more engaged’ in terror fight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017. From left are, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Vice President Mike Pence, Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: Meeting with Iraqis, Trump criticizes Iran deal

Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iraqi prime minister joins Trump for meeting focusing on IS

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

Patience is this Iraqi-born Washington student’s true virtue

By MELISSA SLAGER - Associated Press

A Federal Police soldier shoots toward Islamic State militant positions during fighting in western Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

How the US mission in Syria has evolved and could expand

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Nadia Hanan Madalo, center right, hugs her mother, Alyshooa Kannah, left, at the airport after arriving from Iraq Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in San Diego. Madalo and her family, refugees forced to flee their town of Batnaya, Iraq, after the Islamic State invaded and destroyed it several years ago, arrived in San Diego to be reunited with Madalo's siblings and mother. As they flew to the U.S. on Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii put a hold on President Trump's newest ban - the latest development in a fight between the administration and the courts that has injected more uncertainty into the lives of refugees. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

‘I am lucky’: Refugee family celebrates arrival to US

By JULIE WATSON and MALAK HARB - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 9, 2017 file photo, a large cloud of smoke rises during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants as civilians walk toward Iraqi security forces after fleeing their homes on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

In Mosul, a heavy but not crushing blow to IS group

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

Halima Mohamed, embraces her daughter Muzamil Shalle, 14, not long after seeing her and her sister for the first time in seven years at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. The parents, who are from Somalia but have been living in Mechanicsburg, Pa., were originally scheduled to receive the children earlier this year, but the process was delayed due to a security check expiring as a result of delayed travel caused by the Jan. 27, 2017, White House travel ban executive order. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Somaliland pleads to be removed from Trump’s extreme vetting list

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, right, and her client Nadia Murad, left, a human rights activist and Yazidi genocide survivor, listen during a United Nations human rights meeting called &quot;The Fight against Impunity for Atrocities: Bringing Da'esh [ISIS] to Justice,&quot; Thursday, March 9, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Amal Clooney: Don’t let Islamic State get away with genocide

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

The Latest: Nigerian NGO calls travel ban ‘obnoxious’

Associated Press

Airport officials and civil rights lawyers across the U.S. are getting ready to face President Trump's latest travel ban, which no longer affects Iraqi visitors. (Associated Press)

Iraq removed from travel ban list after agreeing to take back illegal immigrant criminals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times