Iraq

Members of Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces clean the rubble after a U.S. airstrike in al-Qaim, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. The U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Friday that the U.S. forces conducted airstrikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and affiliated militia groups. (AP Photo/Popular Mobilization Forces Media Office)

What to know about the U.S. strikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen

British forces assisted in Yemen strikes on Saturday, which hit Houthi targets

FILE - Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raise the Quran, the Muslims’ holy book, during a demonstration in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, on June 30, 2023, in response to the burning of Quran in Sweden. Protesters angered by the burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, July 20, 2023, online videos purported to show. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq, Sweden in diplomatic clash after man desecrates the Quran

Protesters storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad in anticipation of book-buring in Stockholm

Lawyer Paul Champ listens during the Military Police Complaints Commission during the Public Interest Hearings into the allegations regarding Afghan Detainees in Gatineau, Quebec, Wednesday, October 14, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Ottawa to allow return of Canadian who spent years in Syrian prison camps

Woman said she has no identity documents, little cash, and feared for her safety