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Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, left, and his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari, give a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Hammond says coalition airstrikes will not be enough to defeat the Islamic State group, saying that the Iraqi government, its military and its people play a key role in this fight. The British government is taking part in the U.S.-led aerial campaign combating the Islamic State group. However, it has refused to join the U.S.-led airstrike campaign in Syria. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Militants take Iraq army camp as bombs hit Baghdad

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October 13, 2014 6:54 pm

In this Aug. 6, 2014, photo, displaced Iraqis who fled from their towns after advances by Islamic militants take shelter in Najaf, Iraq. Some 50,000 newly displaced Shiite Turkmen arrived the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where they are safe for now _ but not without extreme hardship. They journeyed several hours across Iraq's sprawling deserts. Some traveled without food or water in the blistering heat made worse by an overcrowded buses of hysterical refugees _ many of them far less fortunate, having lost a relative or two at the hands of the unforgiving militants who view them as apostates. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

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Displaced Iraqis escape fighting, but not hardship

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August 14, 2014 6:48 pm

Civilians inspect the site of a car bomb attack near a restaurant in the southeastern district of New Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. A string of attacks in and around the capital killed more than a dozen and wounded dozens. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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UN says Iraq humanitarian crisis at highest level

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August 13, 2014 11:41 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad. On Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, al-Maliki ordered security forces not to intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next prime minister, but rather focus on defending the country, which is under attack by Sunni militants in the north. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)

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Iraq’s prime minister seems increasingly isolated

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August 13, 2014 2:18 am

U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets take off for mission in Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. U.S. military officials said American fighter aircraft struck and destroyed several vehicles Sunday that were part of an Islamic State group convoy moving to attack Kurdish forces defending the northeastern Iraqi city of Irbil. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

National Security

Iraq crisis deepens; US directly arms Kurds

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August 12, 2014 1:27 am

Saddam Hussein’s tomb damaged in fighting

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Saddam Hussein’s tomb damaged in fighting

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August 5, 2014 6:11 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2005 file photo, an Iraqi Airways plane sits on the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport. European and Dubai-based airlines have begun rerouting flights over Iraqi airspace as a security precaution, though Iraq says its skies are safe. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Business

Dubai, European airlines divert flights over Iraq

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July 30, 2014 5:40 pm