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Iraq

Iraq

A view of a temple in the UNESCO-listed ancient city of Hatra, south of Mosul. (AFP)

UNESCO rebuilds Mosul landmarks as showcase for multilateral approach

Iraq

Iran wins in Iraqi elections

Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during a session of the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, on September 3. (Reuters)

In Iraq, Tehran plays with fire

Basra

Protesters raise the Iraqi flag at the gate of the Iranian Consulate building before storming it in Basra, on September 7. (AP)

Basra unrest points to another Iran-Iraq showdown

Ibrahim al-Zoubeidi

Basra

Blowback. Protesters chant anti-government slogans while security forces prevent them from storming the governor’s building in Basra, on September 5. (AP)

Basra’s fury has Iran and its cronies in Iraq scared

Tallha Abdulrazaq

Iraq

Iranian Ambassador in Iraq Iraj Masjedi speaks outside the new building of the Iranian Consulate in Basra, on September 11. (AFP)

Iraq in crossfire of escalating Iran-US tensions

Mamoon Alabbasi

Abadi

A man walks past a campaign poster of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Najaf. (Reuters)

Abadi edged out of prime minister’s race but real change in Iraq remains remote

Mamoon Alabbasi

Iran

An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage at the party headquarters in Koysinjaq, 100 kilometres east of Arbil, on September 12, 2018. (AFP)

Iran warns 'arrogant foreign powers' with strike on Kurds

Iraq

Supporters of Former Iraqi Kurdistan region's President Masoud Barzani, shout slogans ahead of regional elections in Erbil, Iraq September 11, 2018. (Reuters)

Campaigning begins in Iraqi Kurdistan for parliamentary elections