US forces firing teargas at Iraqi demonstrators protesting against US strikes that killed Iraqi militia fighters outside the US embassy in Baghdad on 1 January 2020. The US had blamed an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia for the 27 December 2019 attack on the K-1 air base. Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP.

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