This year’s observance, for many, is marred by Israel’s war on Gaza.
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And why are they exchanging fire with the US in tit-for-tat attacks around the region?
Baghdad says the US ‘has become a factor for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq in the cycle of conflict’.
The US says it was behind a drone strike in Iraq’s capital Baghdad that killed two commanders of Kataib Hezbollah.