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Kuwait prepares for Iraq joint committee meeting
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 20, 2007 an Iraqi man rides a bicycle passing by a remains of a car, burnt after Blackwater guards escorting US embassy officials opened fire in the Baghdad neighbourhood, on September 16, 2007, killing more than ten people. - Iraqis on December 23, 2020 were outraged, heartbroken but not surprised to hear of a US presidential pardon for four American security guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. The Blackwater team, contracted to provide security for US diplomats in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003, claimed they were responding to insurgent fire. The bloody episode left at least 14 Iraqi civilians dead and 17 wounded. (Photo by Ali YOUSSEF / AFP)

Iraqis angry but unsurprised over Trump pardons
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Iraq Prime Minister pushes for closer ties with Kuwait
An Iraqi street vendor selling facemasks and disinfectants tends to customers in the capital Baghdad on December 4, 2020. - While much of the world fears Covid-19, Iraqis have mostly stopped wearing facemasks as they worry more about the pandemic's economic impact than the virus itself. In a war-scarred country burdened by rising job losses and deepening poverty, a majority of citizens seem to have shrugged off the global public health crisis. (Photo by Sabah ARAR / AFP)

Iraqis shed masks as economic pain grows
Worshippers attend mass at the Chaldean Catholic Church of Mar Addai in the town of Karemlash, about 28 kilometres southeast of Iraq's northern city of Mosul on December 8, 2020. - The Vatican announced on December 7 that the 83-year-old Pope Francis would make the first-ever papal visit to Iraq in early March. The itinerary consists of trips to Baghdad, the southern city of Ur -- where Abraham is said to have been born -- and the Christian heartland of Nineveh province. (Photo by Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP)

Iraqi Christians eagerly await Pope
Iraqi demonstrators lift national flags as they gather in Habboubi Square in the southern city of Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar province, on December 4, 2020, to express anger after followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr clashed with young protesters lately. (Photo by Asaad NIAZI / AFP)

Iraqis renew protest after violence
Zedan, a patient suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is in medical consultation at the mental health centre of the Bajet Kandala camp for displaced Yazidis near Dohuk, 430 kilometres (260 miles) northwest of the Iraqi capital, by the border with Syria, on November 18, 2020. - For Yazidis who fled the violence of 2014 when the Islamic State group overran Sinjar, the rugged heartland of the esoteric minority in Iraq's northwest, coping with the ensuing trauma in the Bajet Kandala camp took years for the panic attacks to stop. But only for a few months until March, when Iraqi authorities declared a nationwide lockdown to try to contain the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES / AFP)

Coronavirus revives traumas of many IS survivors in Iraq
Worshippers attend mass at the Chaldean Church of St. Joseph in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on November 7, 2020. - A few hundred thousand Christians are left in Iraq, where a US-led invasion in 2003 paved the way for bloody sectarian warfare that devastated the country's historic and diverse Christian communities -- Assyrian, Armenian, Chaldean, Protestant and more -- that were directly targeted later, as local hardliners fought each other starting in 2006. (Photo by Sabah ARAR / AFP)

Iraqi Christians still dream of leaving
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Iraq and Saudi reopen border after 30 years
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