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Iran

Iranian Mohamad Bagher Ghalibaf (R) talks to MPs after being elected parliament speaker at the Iranian parliament in Tehran. (AP)

Tehran exerts pressure to undermine US, Iraq talks

Lebanon

Lebanese Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri wearing a face shield attends a legislative session in Beirut, May 28. (Reuters)

Lebanese parliament lifts secrecy in cases of corruption, terrorism

Lebanon

A 2018 file picture of Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. (AFP)

Lebanon’s Berri takes sides with Hezbollah

Iraq

A resident of Najaf, visits the Imam Ali shrine through his phone in Iraq’s central holy city of Najaf. (AFP)

Virtual tours provide safer option for visitors of Iraqi shrine

Iraq

Iraq’s new Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi addresses the parliament in Baghdad, May 7. (AFP)

Iran proxies fret over Iraqi PM’s moves to clip Tehran’s wings

Iraq

Kataib Hezbollah Iraqi militia gather ahead of the funeral of the Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, last January. (REUTERS)

Kataib Hezbollah’s influence in Iraq may be quietly eroding

Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi chairs the ministerial meeting of the new Iraqi cabinet in Baghdad, May 9. (AFP)

Iraqi PM Kadhimi off to good start as he tackles government mismanagement

Iraq

A file picture shows protesters holding a poster that read: "We are all Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi" during a protest in Baghdad, last October. Kadhimi has reinstated Saadi in his key anti-terrorism post. (AP)

Khadhimi embodies Iraqis' hope for change even if challenges abound

US

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a news conference at the State Department, in Washington, March 31. (Reuters)

US accuses Tehran of being ‘directly involved’ in the killing of Iranian dissident in Turkey