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    December 26, 2018
    President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer
    Trump visits US troops in Iraq for first trip to a conflict zone
    President Donald Trump greeted U.S. troops on an unannounced trip Wednesday to Iraq, where he defended his decision to withdraw forces from neighboring...
    news/nationDecember 26, 2018 - 2:02pm
    September 5, 2018
    Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi at the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 18, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Alex Kraus.
    Deadly protests rage in Iraq over lack of services as political transition deadlocks
    BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities were bracing for a fresh round of violent protests on Wednesday after security forces killed six demonstrators over...
    news/worldSeptember 5, 2018 - 7:17am
    July 17, 2018
    Photo from U.S. Department of Defense
    ISIS is making a comeback in Iraq less than a year after Baghdad declared victory
    BAGHDAD - The Islamic State is creeping back into parts of central Iraq just seven months after the government declared victory in the war against...
    news/worldJuly 17, 2018 - 1:31pm
    April 30, 2018
    US shuts down ground forces office in Iraq, as major combat operations against Islamic State end
    CAIRO - The headquarters coordinating the activities of American ground forces in Iraq closed down on Monday, April 30, marking the end of major combat operations against the Islamic State, said U.S. officials. Deactivating the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command in Baghdad...
    news/government-and-politicsApril 30, 2018 - 9:12am
    January 1, 2018
    Tribune file photo Atwater Police Chief Reed Schmidt poses with his K-9 partner, Dakota, in 2012. He had began his career in law enforcement 37 years earlier. Atwater Police Chief Reed Schmidt poses with his K-9 partner, Dakota in 2012. He had began his career in law enforcement 37 years earlier.
    Atwater community mourns loss of 'old school' police chief
    ATWATER - The community of Atwater is mourning the loss of a man who was very much the quintessential small-town police chief. Reed Schmidt...
    news/crime-and-courtsJanuary 1, 2018 - 8:21pm
    July 20, 2017
    Julie Buntjer / Forum News Service The Brewster memorial features a fallen soldier in the likeness of Sgt. Kyle Miller as well as boots, rifle, bayonet and helmet representing veterans from World War II, Vietnam, Cold War and Korea.
    A small town remembers: Fallen soldiers Kyle Miller, Ryane Clark at center of Brewster's memorial
    BREWSTER — Never would Kathy Miller have imagined anything positive coming from her son's death 11-years ago in Iraq. But just a few weeks...
    newsJuly 20, 2017 - 10:51pm
    July 5, 2017
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    Hobby Lobby illegally smuggled thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts into U.S. Now they have to give them back, pay $3M
    The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday it had reached a settlement with national arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby to forfeit thousands...
    newsJuly 5, 2017 - 8:08pm
    June 8, 2017
    David and Karen Eubank are shown with their children Sahale, 16, Suuzanne, 14 and Peter, 11, next to their armored ambulance in the Iraqi city of Mosul. MUST CREDIT: Family Photo
    Thousands of Iraqis have fled Mosul, but this American family moved in
    MOSUL, Iraq - The Eubank family has a guiding principle - if other families are forced to live in war zones, there should be no issue with theirs...
    newsJune 8, 2017 - 3:09pm
    April 2, 2017
    Iraq has pledged to fully comply with oil cut deal, OPEC chief says
    BAGHDAD, April 2 - Iraq has assured OPEC it will fully comply with an agreement to cut oil supply in order to bolster crude prices, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said on Sunday in Baghdad. Iraq's compliance stands now at 98 percent, the nation's oil minister Jabar al-Luaibi...
    newsApril 2, 2017 - 3:51pm
    March 25, 2017
    Displaced Iraqis flee their homes as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq March 25, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
    US confirms coalition airstrike in Mosul district; dozens of civilians believed killed
    MOSUL, Iraq – The U.S military confirmed on Saturday that U.S. warplanes had hit an Islamic State-held area of the besieged Iraqi city of Mosul...
    newsMarch 25, 2017 - 2:05pm
    March 6, 2017
    President Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives iin Washington, U.S., February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool
    Trump signs new travel ban order, Iraq left off
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order for a U.S.travel ban on Monday, leaving Iraq off the list of targeted countries,...
    newsMarch 6, 2017 - 11:18am
    February 20, 2017
    Iraqi Chief of Staff General Othman al-Ghanimi welcomes U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 20, 2017. Reuters photoplay button
    Trump's defense chief says in Iraq: We're not here for your oil
    BAGHDAD, Iraq—The U.S. military is "not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said as he arrived for talks with...
    newsFebruary 20, 2017 - 5:44pm
    February 11, 2017
    Ayman, a boy from a minority Yazidi community, who was sold by Islamic State militants to a Muslim couple in Mosul, is greeted by his relative after he was returned to his Yazidi family in Duhok, Iraq, Jan. 31, 2017. Muhammad Hamed / Reutersplay button
    Sold by Islamic State, bought by strangers: Yazidi child reunited with family
    RASHIDIYAH, Iraq—His name was Ayman, but the couple who brought the boy home to their Iraqi village after buying him for $500 called him...
    newsFebruary 11, 2017 - 8:22pm
    February 5, 2017
    The entrance of the health club in the damaged five-star Ninewah Oberoi Hotel in Mosul city, Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 30, 2017. Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
    Mosul hotel catered to elites: from Saddam allies to suicide bombers
    MOSUL, Iraq—When Islamic State seized the five-star Ninewah Oberoi Hotel in east Mosul it replaced wealthy Iraqi patrons with another kind...
    newsFebruary 5, 2017 - 10:00am
    February 4, 2017
    Children look at a bear at Nour Park in Mosul's zoo, Iraq, Feb. 2, 2017. Muhammad Hamed / Reuters
    Animals starve to death in Mosul's ruined zoo
    MOSUL, Iraq—A bear paces around a filthy cage next to a starving lion, the only two animals left in Mosul's zoo. At the edge of their tiny...
    newsFebruary 4, 2017 - 2:43pm
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