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Smoke billows in the village of Zrgoiz, near Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, where the bases of several Iranian opposition groups are located, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. An Iranian drone bombing campaign targeting the bases of an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq has killed nd wounded dozens. (AP PhotoAla Hoshyar, Metrography)

Kurdish officials: Death toll climbs in Iranian drone attack

By Salar Salim - Associated Press

With the Lebanese Government House in the background, a new generator is hauled up to the roof of an office building, in Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 21, 2022. They literally run the country. Private generators are ubiquitous in parts of the Middle East, spewing hazardous fumes into homes and business across the country, almost 24 hours a day. As the world looks for renewable energy to tackle climate change, Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza and elsewhere rely on diesel-powered private generators just to keep the lights on. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In parts of Mideast, power generators spew toxic fumes 24/7

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

China Oil Grab against Iraq Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Iraq worried about China’s control over oil

By Jianli Yang

Iraqi security forces fire tear gas on followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protesting inside the government palace grounds, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Al-Sadr, a hugely influential Shiite cleric announced he will resign from Iraqi politics and his angry followers stormed the government palace in response. The chaos Monday sparked fears that violence could erupt in a country already beset by its worst political crisis in years. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi cleric calls on loyalists to withdraw after clashes

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in Najaf, Iraq, Feb. 10, 2021. Al-Sadr who's followers have been staging a sit-in outside Iraq's parliament announced his resignation from politics and the closure of his party's offices on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. It is an unexpected plot twist more than four weeks after his supporters stormed the parliament building to prevent his Iran-backed rivals from forming a government. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite cleric, announces retirement in plot twist

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces fire tear gas on followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protesting inside the government palace grounds, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Al-Sadr, a hugely influential Shiite cleric announced he will resign from Iraqi politics and his angry followers stormed the government palace in response. The chaos Monday sparked fears that violence could erupt in a country already beset by its worst political crisis in years. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Chaos and deadly clashes in Baghdad as cleric al-Sadr leaves Iraqi politics

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Supporters of Iran-backed Shiite Coordination Framework attend a rally to denounce their rivals, followers of an influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who stormed the parliament last month and have since been holding a sit-in outside the assembly building in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iraqi judiciary says it has no powers to dissolve parliament

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold prayer near the parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Al-Sadr's supporters continue their sit-in outside the parliament to demand early elections. The photo show Muqtada al-Sadr and his late father Muhammed Sadiq al-Sadr. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Rival Iraq protests underscore inter-Shiite power struggle

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Danielle Robinson, wife of Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson, who died of cancer two years ago, speaks as her daughter Brielle Robinson and President Joe Biden listen during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Washington. During the event Biden signed veterans health care legislation that ends a long battle to expand benefits for people who served near burn pits. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden signs sweeping burn-pit law to help ailing military veterans

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, speaks during a mews conference in Najaf, Iraq, Nov. 18, 2021. Residents of the impoverished Baghdad suburb of Sadr City say they they support al-Sadr an influential Shiite cleric who called on thousands of his followers to storm Iraq's parliament. Al-Sadr derives his political weight largely from their seemingly unending support. And yet, they are among Iraq’s most destitute. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

In Baghdad’s Sadr City, cleric’s support underpins protests

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi talks during a meeting with US President Joe Biden, Saturday, July 16, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iraq’s PM to push for regional dialogue at Mideast summit

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

In this Feb. 24, 1991 file photo, Kuwaiti troops wear gas masks and protective suits as they roll through southern Kuwait in an armed motor convoy, the first full day of ground conflict in Operation Desert Storm. The inverted &quot;V&quot; painted on vehicles is the allied recognition symbol. In February 1991, after months of building an international coalition, U.S. forces entered Kuwait to end the Iraqi occupation of its smaller, oil-rich neighbor. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

Groundbreaking set for Thursday for Desert Storm memorial on National Mall

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - Populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, speaks during a mews conference in Najaf, Iraq, Nov. 18, 2021. Iraq’s Parliament is set to hold a session Thursday, June 23, 2022, to vote in replacements for 73 lawmakers who resigned earlier this month. The collective walkout by followers of al-Sadr, Iraq’s most influential Shiite politician, threw Iraq into further uncertainty, deepening a months-long political crisis over government formation. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

Tension in Iraq as cleric accuses Iran’s allies of meddling

By Qassim Abdul-Sahra - Associated Press

The superstructure of the future USS Basilone and a crane are seen on Saturday, June 18, at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The christening of a Navy destroyer on Saturday highlighted the sacrifices of two generations — the ship’s namesake killed in World War II and another Marine who died more than 60 years later. The future USS Basilone bears the name of a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor before his death on Iwo Jima. (AP Photo/David Sharp)

Navy destroyer bears name of decorated Marine killed in WWII

Associated Press

A general view of the dried up Lake Sawa Iraq, is seen Saturday, June 4, 2022. This year, for the first time in its centuries-long history, Sawa Lake dried up completely. A combination of mismanagement by local investors, government neglect and climate change has ground down its azure shores to chunks of salt. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq’s ‘pearl of the south’ Lake Sawa dry amid water crisis

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, on the poster, celebrate after the announcement of the results of the parliamentary elections in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Eight months after national elections, Iraq still doesn't have a government. Driven by cutthroat competition for power and resources between elites, there is no clear way out of the unprecedented impasse. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

No way out as Iraq’s dangerous post-election impasse deepens

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Samya Kullab - Associated Press

A combine harvester at the middle of a wheat field harvesting crops in Yousifiyah, Iraq Tuesday, May. 24, 2022. At a time when worldwide prices for wheat have soared due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Iraqi farmers say they are paying the price for a government decision to cut irrigation for agricultural areas by 50% due to severe water shortages arising from high temperatures, drought, climate change and ongoing water extraction by neighboring countries from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - all factors that have heavily strained wheat production. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Severe water shortages strain wheat harvest in Iraq

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

In this picture released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Enrique Mora, the European Union coordinator of talks to revive Iran's nuclear accord with world powers, right, speaks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Mora traveled to Tehran as the bloc makes a last-ditch effort to salvage the tattered deal after a weekslong standstill. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran detains 2 Europeans; EU envoy in Tehran about nuke deal

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at United Performance Metals in Hamilton, Ohio, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden repeats debunked boast that he’s been to Iraq, Afghanistan more than 50 times

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Warmongers and Iraq versus Ukraine illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Iraq versus Ukraine: Warmongers get it wrong again

By Pedro L. Gonzalez