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Attacks from all sides: Why Iraq was dragged into US-Israel war on Iran

· By Sarah Shamim
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Within hours of the United States-Israeli attacks on Iran, US assets in Iraq’s Kurdistan region came under retaliatory attacks from Tehran-backed groups, dragging the country into the conflict that has since expanded across the Middle East and beyond.

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