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Kerry arrives in Iraq on unannounced visit: AFP

BAGHDAD, (APP/AFP) – US Secretary of State
John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Friday for talks
with top Iraqi officials on the war against the Islamic State jihadist group.
Kerry will meet Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, and Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, State Department spokesman John Kirby said.