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Iraq

An Iraqi customer pays with Iraqi dinar banknotes in the capital Baghdad. (AFP)

Iraqi government breathes a sigh of relief as it secures another month of salaries

US

Shadow of the past. Then-Vice-President Joe Biden, (C), sits with President Barack Obama, (R), during a bilateral meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in New York in 2016. (Reuters)

Why Iraqis fret over risk of Trump losing election

Ibrahim Zobeidi

Iraq

Iraqi Finance Minister and acting Oil Minister Ali Allawi meets with top Saudi ministers Saturday. (SPA)

Iraq seeks Gulf funds to stave off liquidity crisis

ISIS

A fighter of the Syrian Democratic forces stands guard at the entrance of the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz. (AFP)

Recent clashes in Egypt, Syria and Iraq shows fight against ISIS is not over

Arab countries

A yemeni man carries his son who holds a balloon outside a shopping mall ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Reuters)

For Muslims, an unusual Eid al-Fitr amid pandemic to follow a subdued Ramadan

Iraq

Captured ISIS figure Nasser al-Qirdash. (Twitter)

Iraqi intelligence announces arrest of key ISIS figure

Iran

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with labourers via video conference during Labourers Week, May 6. (DPA)

Despite tough talk, sanction-hit Iran tries to avoid confrontation with US

Iraq

A member of Hashd al-Shaabi holds a flag of Kataib Hezbollah militia group during a protest outside the main gate of the US Embassy in Baghdad, last December. (AFP)

Developments test Kadhimi’s ability to check militias

Iran

Khamenei speaks via a video conference with members of the Iranian government in Tehran, May 10. (AFP)

Khamenei predicts US 'will be expelled' while Israel says Iran is exiting Syria