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Protesters storm and burn the Basra Government building during a demonstration demanding better public services and jobs in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Angry protesters stormed the Iranian consulate in the southern city of Basra Friday, setting a fire inside as part of ongoing demonstrations that have turned deadly in the past few days, a security official and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraq’s embattled PM visits Basra after week-long protest

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Protesters storm and burn the Iranian consulate building in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Hundreds of angry protesters in Basra took to the streets on Thursday night. Some clashed with security forces, lobbing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to a government building as well as the offices of Shiite militias. At least three people were shot dead in confrontations with security forces. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi protesters set fire to Iran consulate in southern city

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Iraqi riot police close a bridge leading to the heavily guarded Green Zone during protests demanding services and jobs in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) **FILE**

Iraqi PM suspends electricity minister over poor service

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Iraqi government, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, and Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a press conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, early Sunday, May 20, 2018. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in Iraq's parliamentary elections, says the next government will be &quot;inclusive.&quot; The May 12 vote did not produce a single bloc with a majority, raising the prospect of weeks or even months of negotiations to agree on a government. (Iraqi Government via AP) **FILE**

Iran-linked party joins alliance for new Iraqi government

By Connor Foarde - The Washington Times

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gives a speech to his followers on March, 27, 2016 before entering the highly fortified Green Zone, in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Sadr, who led punishing attacks on American forces after the 2003 U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein, appears set to secure the most significant victory of his political career with a strong showing in the May 12 parliamentary election. Al-Sadr gained popularity as a nationalist voice campaigning against corruption and against Irans influence in the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite militia leader, election kingmaker in Baghdad

By Tamara Emad and Gilgamesh Nabeel and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

In this Friday, May 4, 2018 photo, followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, seen in poster, take part in a parliamentary campaign rally in Baghdad, Iraq. Voters head to the polls next weekend for the first time since the government declared victory against the Islamic State group, in elections that could tilt the balance of power between the United States and Iran. The atrocities committed by IS against fellow Sunnis, and the national campaign against the extremist group, seem to have eased the sectarian tensions that marked past votes. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Muqtada al-Sadr’s alliance leads in Iraq election results

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An Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote in the country's parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 12, 2018. Polls opened across Iraq on Saturday in the first national election since the declaration of victory over the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Polls close across Iraq in first vote since victory over ISIS

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Philip Issa - Associated Press

Iraqi PM orders probe into killing of officer at checkpoint

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Iraq says its war against IS has ended

Associated Press

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

Iraqi troops entered disputed territories occupied by the nation's Kurds three years after Kurdish militias seized the areas outside their autonomous region to defend against an advance by the Islamic State extremist group. (Associated Press)

Iraqi forces retake Kirkuk from Kurdish control

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Transcript of AP interview with Iraqi PM

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, file photo, an Iraqi policeman checks the documents of displaced civilians at a collection point west of Mosul on the outskirts of Tal Afar, Iraq. Iraq's prime minister declared the town of Tal Afar "fully liberated" from the Islamic State group after a nearly two-week operation. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko, File)

Haider al-Abadi, Iraqi PM, declares Tal Afar ‘fully liberated’ from ISIS

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Iraqi premier on anti-terror outreach to Saudi Arabia, Iran

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There are an estimated 7,000 overall U.S. military personnel in Iraq, including several hundred Special Forces fighters advising the Iraqi army in the siege of Mosul. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump faces Iraq SOFA after ISIS defeat

By Carlo Muñoz and Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 17, 2017 file photo, U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division fire artillery in support of Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State militants from their base east of Mosul. The U.S. and Iraq are in talks to keeping American troops in the country after the fight against the Islamic State group is concluded, according to a U.S. official and an official from the Iraqi government. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Iraq, US in talks to keep American troop presence after IS

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BRADLEY KLAPPER - 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

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

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

clouded: Islamic State fighters have ignited oil wells outside Mosul to create a smokescreen for U.S.-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces. A successful liberation of Iraq's second-largest city would bolster President Obama's legacy of leading from behind. (Associated Press)

Obama hoping for quick Mosul victory to validate ISIS strategy, boost Hillary Clinton

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times