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Iraq shuttering airspace after US, Israel strike Iran
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An airplane model at a roundabout near Erbil airport in the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region on April 15, 2021. (Safin Hamid / AFP)
Iraq’s Transportation Ministry says it has closed the country’s airspace after Israel and the US struck Iraq’s eastern neighbor Iran.
Air traffic has come to a halt at Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq, state media says.
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