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A member of the Iraqi federal police carries an Iraqi flag during a battle against the Islamic State, in Hamam al-Alil, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 2017. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces launched a large-scale military operation on Sunday to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western half of Mosul city. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Iraqi forces launch offensive to drive IS from western Mosul

By BRAM JANSSEN - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Iraqi Army soldiers celebrate with residents of liberated neighborhoods as they hold upside down a flag of the Islamic State group, in the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq. The U.N. and several aid organizations say an estimated 750,000 civilians are still living under Islamic State rule in Mosul despite recent advances by Iraqi forces. Lise Grande, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, said in a statement Tuesday that the cost of food and basic goods is soaring, water and electricity are intermittent and that some residents are forced to burn furniture to keep warm. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Iraqi forces advance on Islamic State-held western Mosul

By BRAM JANSSEN - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, an Iraqi soldier of the 9th division is seen within a Humvee in Shyma district in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S.-led international coalition, launched a campaign in October to retake Mosul, the country's second largest city and IS's last major urban bastion in Iraq. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Daunting urban terrain as Iraqis push into western Mosul

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 9, 2017 photo, Umar Abdullah, head of the Islamic Front in southern Trinidad, speaks during an interview in Two Princesses Town, Trinidad and Tobago. Umar Abdullah said he has actively discouraged members from traveling to Syria to fight. He said he knew several young men who had become IS fighters, although he declined to provide specifics. (AP Photo/Ricardo Nunez)

Trinidad & Tobago tries to halt fighters to Islamic State

By RICARDO NUNES - Associated Press

ISIS Drone Attacks Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ISIS drones could target Europe

By Douglas Burton

POW/MIA priorities: Accountability for the missing, suicide prevention

By Rolling Thunder Inc.

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, U.S. Army soldiers move through Qayara West Coalition base in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq. Reverberations from President Donald Trump’s travel ban and other stances are threatening to undermine future U.S.-Iraqi security cooperation, rattling a key alliance that over the past two years has slowly beaten back the Islamic State group. Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has sought to contain public anger sparked by the ban and by Trump’s repeated statements that the Americans should have taken Iraq’s oil, as well as his hard line against Iran, a close ally of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File)

Trump moves spark Iraqi anger, calls against future alliance

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

In this Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, photo, Virginia's 2nd District Congressman Scott Taylor speaks during an interview in his campaign office in Virginia Beach, Va. Mr. Taylor is among a cadre of former Navy SEALs who’ve recently ascended to major elected office. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Ex-Navy SEAL from Virginia aims to make mark in Congress

By BEN FINLEY - Associated Press

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend talks with an Iraqi officer during a tour north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Forces fighting the Islamic State group should be able to retake the IS-held cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria within the next six months, according to the top U.S. commander in Iraq. On a tour north of Baghdad Wednesday, Townsend said “within the next six months I think we’ll see both (the Mosul and Raqqa campaigns) conclude.” (AP Photo/ Ali Abdul Hassan)

US commander: Mosul and Raqqa should be retaken in 6 months

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

UN urges more airline passenger info in anti-terror fight

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Protecting the Homeland Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Border security means that entering is privilege, not a right

By Mark H. Metcalf

Syrian and Turkish forces have encircled the city of al-Bab, which the Islamic State terror army has been using as a way station to move weapons, soldiers and other crucial supplies into the group's home base in Raqqa. An assault on the group's stronghold may be imminent. (Reuters)

ISIS hold in Syria loosens after forces cut off supply lines around al-Bab

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Counselor to President Kellyanne Conway listens during the daily White House briefing, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Kellyanne Conway correctly spoke about Bowling Green Iraqi terrorists, misspoke on ‘massacre’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Iranian-born bioengineer researcher Nima Enayati holds up his boarding pass at the Milan's Malpensa International airport in Busto Arsizio, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. Just hours after an appeals court blocked an attempt to re-impose the travel ban, Iranian researcher Nima Enayati checked in on an Emirates Airline flight direct from Milan’s Malpensa airport to New York’s JFK on Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Travelers arrive in US to hugs and tears after ban is lifted

By DENISE LAVOIE and WILLIAM MATHIS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Nineveh police forces train with Spanish coalition members at Basmaya base 40 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S.-led coalition is planning for the day Iraq will be free of the Islamic State group, ramping up the training of a future Mosul police force -- even as the battle for the city is temporarily on hold. The security forces are expected to move into villages of Ninevah province around Mosul and into parts of the city recently retaken from IS. The Iraqi military declared Mosul’s eastern half “fully liberated” in January and is now preparing to battle for the city’s western sector. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

US-led coalition trains Mosul police, plans for IS-free Iraq

By ALI ABDUL-HASSAN - Associated Press

Munther Alaskry sits in the lobby of his New York hotel as his son Hassan naps behind him on a couch, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Alaskry and his family arrived at New York's Kennedy Airport after the Trump administration reversed course and said he and other interpreters who supported the U.S. military could come to America. They spent nearly a week in limbo in Baghdad, thinking their hopes of starting a new life free from death threats had been shattered.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Iraqi ‘speechless’ after 7-year-wait to get into US

By JULIE WATSON and FRANK ELTMAN - Associated Press

Imam disputes man’s claim that mom died due to travel ban

Associated Press

President Obama imposed a temporary freeze on refugees to tighten a shaky vetting process, but once the freeze was lifted, there was still no reliable way to distinguish terrorists from peaceful refugees or legitimate travelers, jihadi analysts say. (Associated Press)

Obama refugee vetting procedure enabled Iraqi terrorists to enter U.S.

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

An Iraqi businessman Nazar al-Hamadani shows a phone picture of his Visa to United States during an interview with the Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. Iraqis say they are shocked and disappointed with President Donald Trump's order that bans citizens of Muslim-majority countries, including Iraq, from entering United States. (AP Photo/ Ali Abdul Hassan)

Iraqi lawmakers urge ban on Americans after Trump order

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and MUHANAD AL-SALEH - Associated Press

Jacklyn Parsons, center raises her fist in the air while participating in a sit-in protest at the Albuquerque Sunport Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Albuquerque, N.M.. A group of 1,000 protesters took over the arrival and departure area to express their opposition to President Trump's Executive Order to ban entry to the U.S to citizens from 7 predominant muslim countries, (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)

The Latest: Pearce: Trump’s travel ban ‘poorly executed’

Associated Press