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Italian Carabinieri keep alert as they guard the new exhibition of Iraqi treasures in the National Museum in Baghdad, on Thursday, July 3, 2003. The Iraqi National Museum briefly opened its doors to the press Thursday. Looting at the museum provoked an international outcry after Baghdad fell on April 9, but U.S. occupation authorities say many of the museum's most important items including the world-famous treasures of Nimrud have been accounted for. Still, scores of items remain missing, said museum director Donny George. The museum won't open to the public for about two years, George said. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Iraq says Islamic State militants ‘bulldozed’ ancient site

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to review the defense authorization request for fiscal 2016 and the future years defense program. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pentagon starts inquiry into Iraq war-plan briefing

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Iraqi Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of their comrade, Ali Mansour, who his family says was killed in Tikrit fighting Islamic militants, during his funeral procession, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Iraq launches operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2015 file photo released by the U.S. Army, Staff Sgt. Kody Cross, center, from the 1st Infantry Division and a Letcher, S.D., native, congratulates Iraqi army trainees on their graduation from a six-week training course at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq. Questions persist about whether the struggling Iraqi military will be ready for the operation to retake Mosul, the country's second largest city, from Islamic State militants in just a few months. A U.S. Central Command official provided some details of the battle plan saying the coordinated military mission to retake Mosul will likely begin in April or May 2015. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Daniel Stoutamire, U.S. Army, File)

Vincent Stewart, DIA director, doubts readiness for Mosul invasion to oust ISIS

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this image made from video posted on a social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, a militant topples an ancient artifact in the Ninevah Museum in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant social media account)

New Islamic State video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, warning about a plan to retake Iraq's second-largest city, said "Mosul is 1.4 to 1.8 million people. It's always been a hostile place." (Associated Press)

Mission to retake Mosul from Islamic State doomed, general says

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter IS, retired Gen. John R. Allen prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Gen. John Allen, overseer of anti-IS coalition, claims Iraqis winning

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraqi security forces hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 7, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

U.S. plans large-scale operation to take Mosul from Islamic State

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 photo, Iraqis look at books on al-Mutanabi Street, home to the city's book market in central Baghdad. One afternoon this month, Islamic State militants arrived at the Central Library of the northern city of Mosul in a non-combat mission. They broke the locks that kept the two-story building closed since the extremists overran the city in mid last year, loading some 2,000 books included children stories, poetry, philosophy, sports, health and cultural and scientific publications into six pickup trucks and leaving behind only the Islamic religious ones. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Islamic State loots Mosul libraries: Non-Islamic texts ‘will be burned’

Associated Press

Father Najeeb Michaeel is working to preserve Christian manuscripts through digitization, recording a memory of Iraq's Christian past. Pictured here is a Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, the earliest complete New Testament, from 4th century Egypt or Palestine. (AP Photo)

Iraqi priests work to save historic Christian writings from Islamic State

By Andrea Gagliarducci - Catholic News Agency

Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, retook parts of Mosul Dam on Sunday, less than two weeks after Baghdad's vital water source was captured by Islamic State fighters. (Associated Press)

Gen. Lloyd Austin: Iraq’s battle for Mosul will take place before summer

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Iraqi Christians pray during New Year's mass at the Chaldean Mar Gorges Church in Baghdad, Iraq. In Iraq's war-scarred capital, authorities closed commercial streets to vehicles in the city's center as a precaution against possible suicide bombings by militants of the Islamic State terror. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi Christians: There’s no going home after rise of Islamic State

By Kevin J. Jones - Catholic News Agency

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) listens Thursday as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Armed Services committee hearing on the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Islamic State, al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front align as Pentagon reconsiders combat troops

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Associated Press)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State leader, wounded in airstrike, reports say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Fearing uprising, Iraq militants hunt ex-police

By Sameer N. Yacoub and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press