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Illustrative: Iraqi security forces close a street leading to the heavily guarded Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)
May 19, 2019, 10:17 pm
Katyusha rocket crashes into Baghdad Green Zone; no casualties
Rocket fired at Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified district, which houses US Embassy, days after State Department ordered evacuation of all non-essential staff
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue
US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the National Association of REALTORS Legislative Meetings and Trade Expo, May 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
May 19, 2019, 6:52 pm
Trump preparing to pardon US troops charged with war crimes — report
US president said planning Memorial Day gesture for Navy SEAL, Green Beret and others accused or convicted of multiple murders of unarmed civilians
By TOI staff
The USS Abraham Lincoln sails south in the Suez canal near Ismailia toward the Persian Gulf, May 9, 2019. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)
May 19, 2019, 1:19 am
War talk grips Iraq as storied US carrier returns to Gulf
Iraqis convinced conflict looms between Washington and Tehran as the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose warplanes bombed Iraq in 2003, returns to region and tensions spiral
By Ali Choukeir
In this photo taken on February 18, 2016, German military experts work on an army vehicle at a workshop for Peshmerga forces, in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
May 15, 2019, 5:56 pm
German army halts Iraq military training amid Iran tensions
Berlin says ‘no concrete threat’ against its forces in the region, but decision comes after State Department orders non-emergency US embassy staff to leave Baghdad and Erbil
By Agencies
Illustrative photo of the US embassy under construction as seen from across the Tigris river in Baghdad, Iraq, May 19, 2007. (AP Photo)
May 15, 2019, 12:50 pm
As Iran tensions mount, US orders all nonessential staff to leave Iraq
Employees at missions in Baghdad and in Erbil told to leave; visa services temporarily suspended
By Agencies and TOI staff
A US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress aircraft assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron takes off from Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, May 12, 2019. (Staff Sgt. Ashley Gardner, US Air Force via AP)
May 15, 2019, 4:51 am
Allies split with US over Iranian threat as war worries mount
British general tells reporters that coalition forces have not detected any issues with Iran-backed forced in Iraq and Syria, drawing rare rebuke from US military and exposing rift
By AP
In this April 5, 2019 photo, a man is taken for questioning by Iraqi army 20th division soldiers during a raid in Badoush, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
May 13, 2019, 10:37 am
After caliphate’s fall, Islamic State still spreads fear
Human Rights Watch accuses authorities of torturing suspects to extract confessions of belonging to the terrorist group
By Bram Janssen
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters in flight after a previously unannounced trip to Baghdad, May 8, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)
May 8, 2019, 1:23 am
Pompeo makes unannounced trip to Iraq
US secretary’s visit to Baghdad is show of support for Iraqi government as Washington squeezes Iran
By Matthew Lee
In this Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, file photo, 1st Lt. Michael C. Behenna, left, and his defense attorney Capt. Tom Clark, right, walk in Camp Speicher, a large US base near Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Iraq (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera, File)
May 7, 2019, 9:13 am
Trump pardons former US soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner
Lt. Michael Behenna had been scheduled to remain on parole until 2024; questions have been raised about court’s handling of his claim of self-defense
By AP
Iraqi President Barham Salih, right, walks with visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, after inspecting an honor guard at Salam Palace, Baghdad, March 11, 2019. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)
April 22, 2019, 9:55 pm
Iraq, Saudi Arabia ready to up oil output as US cuts off Iran waivers
As Baghdad prepares to compensate for shortfalls once waivers terminated, Trump says Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members will ‘more than make up’ resulting difference in oil supply
By AFP
Yazidi Iraqi women queue in order to get food at the Bajid Kandala camp near the Tigris River, in Kurdistan's western Dohuk province, where they took refuge after fleeing advances by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq on August 13, 2014. Photo credit:AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
April 13, 2019, 3:00 pm
Syria Kurds return 25 Yazidis freed from IS to Iraq
US-backed fighters say they rescued some 300 Yazidi women and children during the fight to take the jihadists’ last scrap of territory in eastern Syria
By AFP
Iraqi Kurdish artist Shanaz Jamal, 40, embroiders a robe ornated with religious symbols of communities of Iraq's multi-ethnic north, in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region, on March 27, 2019. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
March 28, 2019, 3:59 pm
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a robe for religious coexistence
Artist Shanaz Jamal, who designed a dress featuring a Star of David alongside a cross, crescent and other symbols, wants her creation put on display at the Vatican
By AFP
A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, on October 29, 2018 in which eleven Jews were killed while at Shabbat services. (AP/Matt Rourke)
March 15, 2019, 10:42 am
As New Zealand targeted, a look at deadly attacks on houses of worship
In past decade, over a dozen armed assaults have been carried out by extremists targeting synagogues, mosques, shrines, and churches
By AP
Iraqi President Barham Salih, right, and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani shake hands during an official welcome ceremony for Salih at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, November 17, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
March 10, 2019, 12:54 pm
Iran’s president to visit Iraq for first time
Facing pressure at home over US pullout from nuclear deal, Rouhani to try to warm up ties with fellow Shiite neighbor
By AP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad on March 3, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)
March 4, 2019, 1:35 am
In rare visit to Iraq, Abbas offers Palestinian ‘expertise’ to help rebuilding
Senior officials deny reports PA president will make first Syria visit since outbreak of civil war to meet with Assad
By Adam Rasgon
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