10 things you need to know today: March 24, 2013

John Kerry touches down in Baghdad, Quantico shooter and victims are identified, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iraq's Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi during an announced visit to the country on March 24 in Baghdad.
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1. JOHN KERRY ARRIVES IN IRAQ IN UNANNOUNCED VISIT

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad on Sunday on a surprise visit, the first by an American secretary of state since Hillary Rodham Clinton went to Iraq in 2009. Kerry is expected to tell Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki that Iraq must take steps to stop the shipment of Iranian arms to Syria if it wants to participate in broader discussions about Syria's future after President Bashar al-Assad leaves, according to a senior State Department official. The air corridor over Iraq has emerged as a main supply route for weapons, including rockets, antitank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, as well as Iranian personnel, according to American intelligence officials. [New York Times]

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Terri is a freelance writer at TheWeek.com. She's a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and has worked at TIME and Brides. You can follow her on Twitter.