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This picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) welcoming Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at al-Shaab presidential palace in Damascus. "The two sides discussed expanding cooperation over borders, oil, gas, water, transport, and working to increase trade between the two countries by establishing free-trade zones. "(AFP/SANA)

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The militants have more than just the US as targets.

File photo shows Iraqi men walking past a poster of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Amara in the Maysan province, south of Baghdad. Iraqi militias are increasingly torturing and executing men suspected of homosexuality but the authorities in Baghdad are doing nothing to stop the violence, Human Rights Watch has said. (AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)