The announcement came just hours after Iraq faced a new rocket attack targeting foreign troops stationed at military bases across the country
Iraqi president names Adnan Zurfi as PM
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Men wearing protective gear carry the body of Fatemeh Rahbar, a lawmaker-elect from Tehran constituency, who died on Saturday after being infected with the new coronavirus
Coronavirus spread worsens in Iran
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The rocket attacks came less than two days after the United States launched retaliatory air strikes at facilities in Iraq
Three US troops wounded in attack on Iraq’s Taji base
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US soldiers pictured at the Taji base complex in December 2014
New rockets target Iraq base where US, UK troops killed
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Marine General Kenneth McKenzie
US warns threat from Iran still high
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A US fighter jet
US air strikes hit Iraq’s Kataeb Hezbollah
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Kuwaiti healthy ministry workers prepare to scan expatriates living in Kuwait who returned from Egypt, Syria and Lebanon
Number of coronavirus infections passes 10,000 mark in Middle East
Saad Guerraoui
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Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces
Baghdad fears escalation after attacks in Iraq and Syria
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Protesters chant slogans as they walk past a Kata'ib Hezbollah's billboard during an anti-government demonstration in Basra
With Iraq back in a vacuum, pro-Iran groups up pressure
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Iraqi authorities have closed land borders with Iran and banned the entry of foreign nationals travelling from there
70-year-old cleric is Iraq’s first coronavirus death
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Anti-government protest
Iraq PM bows out after failing to form government
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General view of Iraq's parliament
Iraqi parliament postpones confidence vote again
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Iraqis stand outside parliament building, or Council of Representatives, in Baghdad's Green Zone
Iraqi crisis prolonged as MPs boycott parliament vote
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The health ministry said the first case in Baghdad was in a young man who had recently returned from Iran
Coronavirus hits Baghdad as Iraq closes public spaces
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Iraqis wearing masks walk on February 25, 2020 in the partially deserted streets of Iraq's central shrine city of Najaf
Iraqis catch coronavirus amid outbreak in neighbour Iran
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Kuwaiti women wear protective masks as they sit in a restaurant inside the Mubarakiya Market in Kuwait City
Three more Kuwaitis infected with coronavirus
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