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Iraq's leader, Haider al-Abadi, is eager to preserve good relations between US and Iraq. (AFP/File)

February 5th, 2017 - 05:00 GMT

Abadi rejects calls from Iranian factions to react to Trump ‘Muslim-ban’

Iraq's leader Haider al-Abadi faced calls last week to respond in kind to the ban, just like Tehran did the day before.

Iraqi security forces stand guard at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a market in the Baghdad Jadida neighborhood in the east of the capital on September 27, 2016. (AFP/Sabah Arar)

October 3rd, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Violence in Iraq kills more than 1,000 in September alone