Iraq

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** FILE ** Iraqi security forces enter through the main gate of Camp Ashraf in Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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A man inspects the aftermath of a bomb attack at a coffee shop in the northeastern Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed scores of people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Firefighters hose down a burned vehicle at the site of a car bomb explosion in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, July 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

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People clean up after a car bomb attack hit a Shiite mosque in the neighborhood of Bayaa, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July. 29, 2013. A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing scores in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 21, 2009, file photo, guards stand at a cell block at the renovated Abu Ghraib prison, now renamed Baghdad Central Prison and run by Iraqis in Baghdad, Iraq. Late-night jailbreak attempts at two major prisons outside Baghdad have killed dozens, including at least 25 members of Iraq’s security forces who battled militants armed with car bombs, mortars and machine guns, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

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An Iraqi army soldier inspects the damage inside the Abu Bakr Mosque in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 19, 2013. A bomb hidden in an air conditioner that ripped through a Sunni mosque during midday prayers and other attacks killed dozens in Iraq on Friday, extending a wave of violence targeting worshippers during the holy month of Ramadan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Iraqis inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack at Baghdad's mostly Shiite neighborhood of Husseiniyah, Iraq, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. A series of evening bombings on near markets in and around Baghdad and other blasts north of the capital killed tens of people and wounded dozens of others Monday in the latest eruption of bloodshed to rock Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

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** FILE ** Mourners carry the coffin of a man killed in a liquor store attack in Baghdad, Iraq, May 15, 2013. More than a year after the U.S. military left Iraq, the country is reeling from its most sustained violence since 2008. Over the last two months more than 1,200 people have been killed, raising fears the country is sliding back into chaos. (Associated Press)