ERBIL, Kurdistan Region- Iran on Saturday evening announced that Iraq is now exempt from restrictions placed on maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, following a month-long economic standstill that has crippled the Iraqi oil sector.

A US airstrike targeted the southeastern Shalamcheh border crossing between Iraq and Iran on Saturday, killing one Iraqi traveler and injuring five others.

Erbil, Kurdistan Region — Iranian authorities on Saturday deployed a notorious Afghan militia in the streets of Tehran as a way of intimidating locals, as security forces continue a crackdown, detaining thousands of people on charges of collaboration with the enemy.

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