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Iraqi security forces stand guard in front of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Baghdad, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Ali Jabar)

Attacks on businesses linked to US brands rattle Baghdad as anger over the war in Gaza surges

A flurry of recent attacks on KFC, Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken and Chili House in Iraq reflect surging anger against the United States, Israel’s top ally.

FILE - Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., meets with reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 11, 2024. The top Republican on a Senate committee that oversees the U.S. military is making an argument for aggressively increasing defense spending over negotiated spending caps. Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, is releasing a plan for a “generational investment” that seeks to deter coordinated threats from U.S. adversaries like Russia, Iran and China. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Key Republican calls for ‘generational’ increase in defense spending to counter US adversaries

FILE - A person holds German and French, left, passports during a demonstration march to protest government plans to reform the education system, in Paris, France, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Official data shows another big increase in the number of people gaining German citizenship last year. According to the figures released Tuesday, May 28, 2024, large numbers of people from Syria helped push naturalizations up to their highest level since at least 2000. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

The number of new German citizens hits another high last year, with many Syrians naturalized

FILE - The sun shines through the flags in the Memorial Day Flag Garden on Boston Common, May 27, 2023, in Boston. Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and retail discounts. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)

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Palestinians are waiting for aid trucks to cross in central Gaza Strip on Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

How does this end? With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in Gaza, Israel faces only bad options

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UN votes to end Iraq political mission established after 2003 US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein

The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to end the U.N. political mission in Iraq established in 2003 after the United States-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to coordinate post-conflict humanitarian and reconstruction efforts, and to help restore a representative governmen

Man sentenced to 25 years for teaching bomb-making to person targeting authorities

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a North Carolina man to 25 years in prison for teaching someone how to make bombs meant to kill federal law enforcement officers.

FILE - Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico speaks during a press conference with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday May 15, 2024 and taken to hospital. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

A look at assassinations and assassination attempts this century

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was seriously wounded in an apparent assassination attempt just weeks before a Europe-wide election that has been deeply divisive.

FILE - The new Fort Liberty sign is displayed outside the base on Friday, June 2, 2023 in Fort Liberty, N.C. U.S. special operations commanders are having to do more with less and they're learning from the war in Ukraine, That means juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five years. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker, File)

US special operations leaders are having to do more with less and learning from the war in Ukraine

U.S. special operations commanders are having to do more with less and they’re learning from the war in Ukraine, That means juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five years.

Iraqi government asks the United Nations to wind down its political mission in the country

The Iraqi government has requested the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country by the end of 2025, the latest in a series of international bodies operating in the country that Iraq has sought to wind down.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Syria’s Kurdish-led force hands over 2 IS militants suspected in 2014 mass killing of Iraqi troops

Syria’s U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led force has handed over to Baghdad two Islamic State group militants suspected of involvement in the 2014 massacre of Iraqi soldiers.

Family members of suspected Islamic State group fighters wait to be transferred by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters from al-Hol camp, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group left a sprawling camp in northeast Syria Wednesday and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Scores of Syrians return home after years at camp housing people linked to the Islamic State group

Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group have left a sprawling camp in northeast Syria and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

US repatriates 11 citizens from notorious camp for relatives of Islamic State militants in Syria

The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State militants.

Turkey says it has carried out new airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq

Turkey’s defense ministry says the country has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq.

This image from video released by the U.S. Army, shows a frame from a haunting new video, released on May 2, 2024, in the latest effort by the Army to lure soldiers to some of its more secretive units. Hints of its origin are tucked into the frames as they flash by touting the power of words, ideas and "invisible hands." Army Special Operations Command hopes that those drawn to the video may be interested in joining as one of its psychological warfare soldiers. (U.S. Army via AP)

Faceless people, invisible hands: New Army video aims to lure recruits for psychological operations

A haunting new video released in the early morning hours is the latest effort by the Army to lure soldiers to some of its more secretive units.

This cover image released by Harper shows "At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House" by H.R. McMaster. (Harper via AP)

H.R. McMaster writes about his time in Trump administration in upcoming ‘At War with Ourselves’

Six years after being forced out as as national security adviser, H.R McMaster is releasing a book about his brief, contentious time in the Trump administration.

FILE - Kurdish forces patrol al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group in Hasakeh province, Syria, on April 19, 2023. Iraq has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Iraq repatriates nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp

Iraqi and Syrian officials say Baghdad has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria.

FILE - Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sign a pledge to stand against homosexuality or LGBTQ, outside a mosque in Kufa, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. Human rights groups and diplomats criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

Passage of harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law in Iraq draws diplomatic backlash

Human rights groups and diplomat have criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people.

FILE - Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson appears in King County Superior Court, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kent, Wash. Jury selection began Monday, April 22, 2024, in the trial of the suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

A Washington police officer killed 3 people in 8 years -- and faces a murder trial for the last one

Jury selection is underway in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 22, 2024. Erdogan arrived in Iraq on Monday for his first official visit in more than a decade. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye /Pool Photo via AP)

Kurdish separatists and water issues loom large in long-awaited visit of Turkey’s Erdogan to Iraq

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making his first official visit to Iraq in more than a decade as Ankara seeks greater cooperation from Baghdad in its fight against a Kurdish militant group that has a foothold in Iraq’s north.

Iraq investigates a blast at a base of Iran-allied militias that killed 1. US denies involvement

Iraqi authorities say they are investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Iran-allied militias, overnight, killing one person and injuring eight.

Iraq's Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani listens during a meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Iraq’s prime minister heads to Michigan to meet Arab Americans at a tense time for the Middle East

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has visited Michigan to meet with the state’s large Iraqi community and update them on escalating tensions in the Middle East.

En este bosquejo artístico aparece Salah Al-Ejaili, al frente, derecha, con anteojos, experiodista de Al-Jazeera, ante el tribunal de distrito de Estados Unidos en Alexandria, Virginia, el martes 16 de abril de 2024. Al-Ejaili ha testificado sobre abusos que sufrió cuando estuvo detenido de la prisión de Abu Ghraib, en Irak. (Dana Verkouteren vía AP)

Abu Ghraib military contractor warned bosses of abuses 2 weeks after arriving, testimony reveals

A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue.

FILE - Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., gestures as he answers questions regarding the ongoing security hearing on Capitol Hill, June 18, 2002, in Washington. Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, has died, according to an announcement by his family Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Bob Graham, ex-US senator and Florida governor, dies at 87

Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, has died. He was 87.

FILE - This late 2003 photo obtained by The Associated Press shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. A trial scheduled to begin Monday, April 15, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., will be the first time that survivors of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison will bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury. Twenty years earlier, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them shocked the world. (AP Photo, File)

Retired general’s testimony links private contractor to Abu Ghraib abuses

An Army general who investigated the abuse of prisoners 20 years ago at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison has testified that a civilian contractor instructed prison guards to “soften up” detainees for interrogations.

FILE - The Supreme Court of the United States is seen in Washington, March 26, 2024. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal and political consequences: whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Supreme Court gives some military veterans more generous educational benefits

The Supreme Court has sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the government over 12 months of G.I.

President Joe Biden, right, meets with Iraq's Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden hosts Iraqi leader after Iran’s attack on Israel throws Mideast into greater uncertainty

President Joe Biden is hosting Iraq’s leader at the White House as his administration works to prevent an escalation in Mideast hostilities following Iran’s weekend attack on Israel.

FILE - This late 2003 photo obtained by The Associated Press shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on his head and wires attached to him in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. A trial scheduled to begin Monday, April 15, 2024, in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., will be the first time that survivors of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison will bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury. Twenty years earlier, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them shocked the world. (AP Photo, File)

20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in US court

Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world.

FILE - A girl tries to peer through the holes of her burqa as she plays with other children in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Despite Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus' reputation as a war photographer, very often she found beauty and joy on assignment. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

10 years after her killing, Anja Niedringhaus’ photos speak for her

On April 4, 2014, outside a heavily guarded government compound in eastern Afghanistan, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed by an Afghan police officer as she sat in her car.

Isaac Banks, an American basketball player with the Hashed al-Shaabi - the Popular Mobilization Forces - in the Iraqi Basketball Super League, takes part in a team practice in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 21, 2024. U.S. players are in high demand on Iraqi basketball teams, even those whose owners have a tense relationship with Washington. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Americans star on an Iraqi basketball team. Its owners include forces that attacked US troops

A pro basketball team in Iraq is owned by a paramilitary group, and some of its forces recently attacked U.S. troops.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Airstrikes in Syria kill an Iranian adviser and a member of a World Health Organization team

A series of airstrikes on eastern Syria have killed more than a dozen people, including an Iranian military adviser and a team member working for the World Health Organization.

Demonstrators hold placards after Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, released a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Two High Court judges said they would grant Assange a new appeal unless U.S. authorities give further assurances about what will happen to him. The case has been adjourned until May 20. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

UK court says Assange can’t be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty

A British court says Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the U.S. on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty.

Man convicted in killing of Iraqi analyst who criticized militias is acquitted and released

Officials in Iraq say that an Iraqi police officer previously sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent security analyst critical of powerful Iran-backed militias has been released from prison following a retrial.

FILE - Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani attends a ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 9, 2024. The White House announced Friday, March 22, that President Joe Biden plans to host al-Sudani on April 15 as the countries hold formal talks about winding down the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq. (Murtadha Al-Sudani/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Biden to host Iraqi leader with talks underway on winding down coalition against the Islamic State

The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month.

FILE - Defendant Jennifer W. arrives in a courtroom for her trial in Munich, Germany, Oct. 25, 2021. A German federal court said Wednesday it has rejected the woman's appeal against her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP, File)

German woman loses appeal of 14-year sentence for letting enslaved Yazidi girl die in Iraq

A German federal court has rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a Yazidi girl she and her husband enslaved when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst.