Congress pushes Trump to reopen US Consulate in Iraq’s Basra province - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Sep 19, 2019

An Iraqi protester waves a national flag while demonstrating outside the burnt-down local government headquarters in the southern city of Basra on September 7, 2018 during demonstrations over poor public services. - Basra has seen a surge in protests since September 4, with demonstrators torching government buildings as well as political party and militia offices, as anger boils over after the hospitalisation of 30,000 people who had drunk polluted water. (Photo by Haidar MOHAMMED ALI / AFP) (Photo c — An Iraqi protester waves a national flag while demonstrating outside the burned-down local government headquarters in the southern city of Basra on Sept. 7, 2018, during demonstrations over poor public services. — HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI/AFP/Getty Images

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