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toward forging a new government that would see the country's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki step aside. "A united Iraq is a stronger Iraq," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters last week. But Iraq's parliament failed to reach an agreement this week on the government's top posts. Also in

s continued across the country as Iraq's Shiite-dominated armed forces, with the help of Shiite militias, struggled to recapture territory seized by the Islamic State. Last week on Friday, the army reclaimed control of Saddam Hussein's birthplace of Awja, a Sunni Arab stronghold north of Baghdad, the Iraqi armed

a power surge knocked out electrical service across parts of the Washington, M., including temporarily knocking out electricity to the White House, State Department, Justice Department, Smithsonian museums, Metro stations, the main campus of the University of Maryland and wide swaths of the nation's capital and

e that body once had the genuine power to declare war, for example, it is now "debating" in a desultory fashion an "authorization" for a war against the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq and possibly elsewhere that has already been underway for eight months and whose course, it seems, will be essentially unaltered, wh

ton/houston-consulate-one-of-worst- offenders-in-chinese-espionage-say-u-s-officials-idUSKCN24P1XT> (7/24, Brunnstrom, Psaledakis) reports a "senior State Department official linked espionage activity at the Houston consulate to China's pursuit of research into a vaccine for the new coronavirus," and "said China

day, saying their `hearts are battered but they will mend.'" The family of Peter Kassig, "an Indianapolis native and aid worker who was beheaded by the Islamic State in 2014, joined three other families Thursday in asking the Trump Administration to bring two ISIS members back to the US to stand trial." Kassig, w

of the People's Liberation Army, China's military, while conducting research in the U.S." Reuters (7/24, Brunnstrom, Psaledakis) reports a "senior State Department official linked espionage activity at the Houston consulate to China's pursuit of research into a vaccine for the new coronavirus," and "said China

eir 'hearts are battered but they will mend." The family of Peter Kassig, "an Indianapolis native EFTA00150480 and aid worker who was beheaded by the Islamic State in 2014, joined three other families Thursday in asking the Trump Administration to bring two ISIS members back to the US to stand trial." Kassig,

of the People's Liberation Army, China's military, while conducting research in the U.S." Reuters (7/24, Brunnstrom, Psaledakis) reports a "senior State Department official linked espionage activity at the Houston consulate to China's pursuit of research into a vaccine for the new coronavirus," and "said China

nday, saying their 'hearts are battered but they will mend." The family of Peter Kassig, "an Indianapolis native and aid worker who was beheaded by the Islamic State in 2014, joined three other families Thursday in asking the Trump Administration to bring two ISIS members back to the US to stand trial." Kassig,