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Iraq virus spike risks pushing strained doctors over the edge

Unpaid salaries, mask shortages, threats from patients' families -- doctors across Iraq are cracking under such conditions, just as they face a long-feared spike in coronavirus cases. "We're collapsing," said Mohammed, a doctor at a COVID-19 ward in Baghdad who declined to use his full name...

Iraq frees 14 pro-Iran fighters held over rocket fire: group

More than a dozen pro-Iran fighters arrested in an unprecedented raid by elite Iraqi forces were released Monday and the case against them dropped, their group's spokesman said. Counter-terrorism forces detained the Kataeb Hezbollah members late Thursday for allegedly planning a rocket...

Second Lebanese IMF negotiator quits ministry post

 A senior member of Lebanon’s negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director general on Monday, saying vested interests were undermining the government’s economic recovery plan. Alain Bifani, who held the ministry post for 20 years, is the second member of...