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Tom Davis, shakes hands with Freddie De Los Santos after winning at Men's H4 Time Trial at the Fuji International Speedway at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
From battlefield to Tokyo: Combat vets vie at Paralympics

By Tim Sullivan Sep. 07, 2021 11:01 AM EDT

Jordan's King Abdullah II, center, arrives in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Egyptian, Jordanian and Iraqi leaders meet in Baghdad

Jun. 27, 2021 11:25 AM EDT

Anti-government protesters chant slogans as they hold posters of slain activists outside the Green Zone area which houses the seat of the country's government and foreign embassies, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Hundreds of Iraqi protesters have taken to the streets of Baghdad to decry a recent spike in assassinations targeting outspoken activists and journalists. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
1 killed as protesters scuffle with Iraqi security forces

By Samya Kullab May. 25, 2021 10:17 AM EDT

Protests erupt in Iraqi city after killing of activist

May. 09, 2021 04:51 PM EDT
BAGHDAD (AP) — Protesters set fire to trailers belonging to Iran’s consulate in Karbala on Sunday amid widespread anger over the killing of a prominent...

Chinese in Iraq blocked from flying home after virus cases

May. 07, 2021 07:20 AM EDT
BEIJING (AP) — Employees of two Chinese state-owned companies in Iraq are blocked from returning to China for two months after 14 coworkers flew home with the...

A follower of populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holds a picture of him while waiting with others to receive a dose of the Chinese Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine at a clinic in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 4, 2021. Iraq’s vaccine rollout had been faltering for weeks. Apathy, fear and rumors kept many from getting vaccinated despite a serious surge in coronavirus infections and calls by the government for people to register for shots. It took al-Sadr’s public endorsement of vaccinations — and images of him getting the shot — to turn things around. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Iraq pushes vaccine rollout amid widespread apathy, distrust

By Abdulrahman Zeyad May. 05, 2021 02:42 AM EDT

Iraq's health minister resigns over Baghdad hospital fire

May. 04, 2021 12:55 PM EDT
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's health minister resigned Tuesday over a week after a deadly blaze killed dozens of people in a Baghdad hospital for COVID-19 patients...

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt poses on the occasion of the Uffizi Gallery museum reopening to the public, in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The Uffizi Gallery reopened to visitors after a shutdown following COVID-19 containment measures. (Giuseppe Cabras/LaPresse via AP)
The Latest: Australia PM stands firm on India flight halt

By The Associated Press May. 04, 2021 03:58 AM EDT

The intensive care unit at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital is damaged following a fire that broke out last Saturday evening killing over 80 people and injuring over 100, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Medical staff who witnessed the first moments of a Baghdad hospital fire described horrific scenes: deafening screams, a patient who jumped to his death to escape the inferno and relatives who died because they refused to abandon coronavirus patients tethered to ventilators. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Iraqi medics recount horrors from Baghdad's hospital inferno

By Samya Kullab And Abdulrahman Zeyad Apr. 27, 2021 08:41 AM EDT

Iraqi rights commission: 58 people killed in Baghdad hospital fire, including coronavirus patients with severe symptoms

Apr. 25, 2021 05:33 AM EDT
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi rights commission: 58 people killed in Baghdad hospital fire, including coronavirus patients with severe symptoms. ...

Mourners take the body of Khudair Ali, a coronavirus patient who died in a hospital fire, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Iraq's Interior Ministry said Sunday that over 80 people died and over 100 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients in the early morning Sunday. (AP/Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Death toll in fire at Iraqi COVID-19 hospital surpasses 80

By Samya Kullab Apr. 25, 2021 04:56 AM EDT

Fire tears through Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients

By Samya Kullab Apr. 24, 2021 05:53 PM EDT
BAGHDAD (AP) — A fire broke out in a Baghdad hospital that cares for coronavirus patients after oxygen cylinders reportedly exploded late Saturday, officials...

In this 2009 photo from left, Khodeir Majid and Iraq senior producer Ahmad Sami stand at the AP office in Baghdad. Majid, who covered Iraq’s numerous conflicts as a video producer and cameraman for the Associated Press over 17 years has died at the age of 64. Relatives said the cause of his death on Friday morning was complications due to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ahmad Sami)
Veteran AP producer, cameraman in Iraq dies of COVID-19

By Zeina Karam Apr. 16, 2021 01:15 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2016 file photo, a U.S. Army soldier guards a position at Camp Swift, northern Iraq. Iraq’s prime minister asked the Iranian leadership to rein in Iran-backed militias in Iraq, and in a strongly worded message to Tehran, suggested he would confront the factions, two Iraqi officials said Wednesday, April 7, 2021, ahead of another round of strategic talks with Washington. (AP Photo/Susannah George, File)
No timetable for withdrawal of troops after US, Iraq talks

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra And Samya Kullab Apr. 07, 2021 12:22 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2006 file photo, Judge Mohammed Oreibi presides over the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, inside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. Judge Mohammed Oreibi passed away in a hospital in Baghdad where he was being treated of complications from the coronavirus, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, Pool, File)
Iraq judge who presided over Saddam's trial dies of COVID-19

Apr. 02, 2021 02:26 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2020 file photo, Jasb Hattab Aboud, father of the kidnapped protester Ali Jasb, cries as he holds his son's picture in his home un the town of Amara,Iraq. Aboud was shot to death Wednesday, March 10, 2021, a human rights monitor and security officials said. Jasb Hattab Aboud died of a gunshot wound to the head at 6 p.m. in the southern city of Amara, said Ali al-Bayati, a spokesman for the semi-official Independent Human Rights Commission and a security official. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Outspoken father of missing activist killed in Iraq's south

By Samya Kullab Mar. 10, 2021 02:07 PM EST

Shiite worshippers gather at the golden-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, who died at the end of the 8th century, during the annual commemoration of the saint's death, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Iraq pilgrims defy virus protocols as case numbers rise

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra Mar. 10, 2021 06:12 AM EST

Pope Francis, center arrives to concelebrate a mass in the Chaldean Cathedral of Saint Joseph, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Earlier today Francis met privately with the country's revered Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
The Latest: Pope attends Mass at crowded Baghdad church

Mar. 06, 2021 10:23 AM EST

Pope Francis, center, leads a mass at Mar Youssef Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Pope Francis and Iraq's top Shiite cleric delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq's long-beleaguered Christian minority during an historic meeting in the holy city of Najaf. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Pope, top Iraq Shiite cleric deliver message of coexistence

By Nicole Winfield And Qassim Abdul-Zahra Mar. 06, 2021 02:21 AM EST

Pope Francis is welcomed upon his arrival at the Sayidat al-Nejat (Our Lady of Salvation) Cathedral, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 5, 2021. Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq to urge the country's dwindling number of Christians to stay put and help rebuild the country after years of war and persecution, brushing aside the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope urges Iraq to embrace its Christians on historic visit

By Nicole Winfield And Samya Kullab Mar. 05, 2021 06:31 AM EST