Developments in Iraq - Sunday, August 10
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![An F/A-18C Hornet coming from Iraq lands on the flight deck of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Sunday, August. 10, 2014, in the Persian Gulf.](https://gdb.voanews.com/C74E5822-9AFD-487E-820E-541BF15C93B8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An F/A-18C Hornet coming from Iraq lands on the flight deck of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Sunday, August. 10, 2014, in the Persian Gulf.
![Iraq's newly elected president Fouad Masoum, right, meets with French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 10, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2EEA4FF3-D70C-4567-BA96-9D0C04BD3DEE_cx0_cy2_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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Iraq's newly elected president Fouad Masoum, right, meets with French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 10, 2014.
![French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, left, shakes hands with Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani after a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 10, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/0FEFF9DF-1312-4B4B-B183-0CFCC545337E_cx0_cy7_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, left, shakes hands with Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani after a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 10, 2014.
![Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in a village on the outskirts of the province of Nineveh near the border province of Dohuk, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2014.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8C79C765-B88C-4730-9031-469638909468_cx0_cy5_cw0_w1024_q10_r1_s.jpg)
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Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in a village on the outskirts of the province of Nineveh near the border province of Dohuk, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2014.