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Turkey

A June 17, 2020 file picture shows the Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar looking at a map with members of the Turkish Armed Forces Command in Ankara during the military operation dubbed “Claw-Tiger.” (AP)

Turkish defence chief in Iraq to impose security-for-water formula

Syrian

A 2017 file photo shows protesters holding signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP)

Mideast families await lifting of US ban to reunite with children

Iraqi

A March 2019 file photo of Iraqi President Barham Salih speaking during an interview in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)

Barham Salih seen dropping nationwide political project

Hammam Latif-58682

Opinion

Houthi ballistic missiles on display during an exhibition of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles an at undisclosed location in Yemen. (AFP)

Iran’s missile programme and US-Israeli agendas

Khairallah Khairallah

Iraqi

Iraqi protesters next to burning tyres during clashes with police in anti-government demonstrations in the city of Nasiriyah in the Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq on January 10, 2021. (AFP)

Deaths spark new protests in Nasiriyah

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Iraq

Members of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces) militias take part in a military parade in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (AFP)

US sanctions key leader of Iraqi PMF, Hezbollah Brigades

Iraqi

Head of the Popular Mobilisation forces Falih al-Fayyadh speaks after the killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis , in Baghdad, Iraq February 11, 2020. (REUTERS)

US blacklisting of Fayyadh puts Iraq in tough predicament

Iraqi

Falah al-Fayadh, Iraqi national security adviser and chief of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces), gives a press conference at the organisation’s command headquarters in the southern city of Basra on March 7, 2018. (AFP)

US sanctions Iraqi militia leader over rights abuses

Iraqi

Families wait for food distribution at the Hasansham camp for internally displaced people in northern Iraq. (AFP)

Iraqi displaced face local grievances, lingering suspicions