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Iraq PM to visit Iran, Turkey as US sanctions bite

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is to visit top trading partners Turkey and Iran next week, an official said Saturday, days after Washington slapped new sanctions on Tehran and piled economic pressure on Ankara. Abadi "will head to Turkey on Tuesday and Iran on Wednesday to...

10 militants killed near Iraq border: Iran Guards

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they had killed 10 militants overnight in a security operation conducted in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the official news agency IRNA reported. "A well-equipped terrorist group ... intending to infiltrate the country...