2003-07-22 04:00:00 PDT Kuwait City-- The tiny strip of road Bechtel Corp. finished last week in the Iraqi desert may seem a small thing -- less than 2 miles of smooth pavement in a country pitted and ...

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KABERLI Iraq (Reuters) - A new map is being drawn across the plains of northern Iraq as Sunni militants of the Islamic State purge the rural landscape of religious and ethnic minorities that have ...