perform. >> woodruff: ravij chandrasekaran and michael gordon, thank you for helping us look back. >> pleasure to talk to you. ruch rough we are collecting your iraq war stories, your reflections and lessons learned. find out how the share those on our home page. again, the major developments of the day, car bombings and suicide blasts killed 65 people in baghdad on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of iraq. pope francis formally took office and called for the church to defend the weak and protect the environment. and the u.s. rejected claims by the syrian government that rebels used chemical weapons. >> woodruff: another newshour colleague is on a reporting trip abroad. ray suarez is in ireland and has filed his first dispatch online. hari sreenivasan has the details. >> sreenivasan: ray is looking into ireland's economic rebound. you can read his first blog: is the worst of ireland's recession over? we examine house majority leader eric cantor's outreach to minority groups who voted in large numbers for president obama in the last election. that's on our politics page.