The greatest danger is that the Israeli-Iranian conflict spills into Lebanon, triggering another war between Israel and Hezbollah. 
The Washington Post awarded Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden two Pinnochios for his claim that he got 150,000 troops out of Iraq during his time as vice president. 
A Canadian citizen and Iraqi national was sentenced to 26 years in prison for conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq. He played a role in the death of five American servicemen. 
Iran's paramilitary fighting force has been running a multi-million-dollar illicit weapons smuggling program in Iraq, according to new disclosures by the Trump administration, which issued a bevy of sanctions on Wednesday aimed at disrupting the arms network. 
U.S. military officials confirmed late Sunday that there were "no U.S. or coalition casualties" as the result of a large explosion near the American embassy in Baghdad that some have already begun to speculate may have been carried out by Iran's terror proxy group, Hezbollah. 
Iran is increasingly prioritizing Iraq in its regional military strategy, using its Iraqi proxies more than ever to project Iranian power and to threaten the U.S. and its allies. Iran is at war with the United States, whether people in Washington like it or not. 
No one knows for sure what will happen in the Middle East over the next several months, but there are enough signs to suggest that history is about to rhyme. 
Israel's campaign of airstrikes against Iranian military targets in Syria has led Iran to move the bulk of its soldiers and bases away from the Israeli border toward Iraq. 
In any war, the enemy gets a say in when the fighting stops. The Islamic State made clear on Wednesday that it is not done fighting the United States, nor the wider civilized world. 