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Iraq

Members of Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces parade in Basra, on September 8. (AP)

To ensure survival, Iranian regime fans protest fires in Basra

Iran

Iranian women walk past a shop displaying scarves on mannequins in the downtown district of the capital Tehran. (AFP)

Iran at war with Shakespeare and its own people

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

Iran

A wounded Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-I) walks after a rocket attack in Koysinjaq, on September 8. (AFP)

Missiles and executions mark Iran’s escalation of conflict with Kurds

Turkey

A man reads a copy of the Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet in Istanbul. AFP)

Turkish media reach rock bottom with Cumhuriyet case

Israel

A Palestinian man runs to help an injured protester shot by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, last May 11. (AP)

Placing the Israeli cart before the Palestinian horse

Palestine

A Palestinian woman holds the key of her family’s home as she sits at the Balatah refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, on September 2. (AFP)

US-Israeli strategy to end Palestinian refugee status is illegal