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Effects of war between Israel and Hamas are felt in Iraq : State of the World from NPR The war in Gaza is creating tensions across the Middle East. Nowhere more so than Iraq, where Iran-backed militias are attacking US bases and forcing a dangerous confrontation. We hear about it from our correspondent in Baghdad.

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Rising Mideast Tension Could Force the U.S. Out of Iraq

Rising Mideast Tension Could Force the U.S. Out of Iraq

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Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), carry the coffin of Abu Baqr al-Saadi, a prominent leader in the Kataeb Hezbollah, who was killed in a strike carried out a day earlier by an American drone that targeted his car in a vital neighborhood in Baghdad, during his funeral in Baghdad on Feb. 8. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), carry the coffin of Abu Baqr al-Saadi, a prominent leader in the Kataeb Hezbollah, who was killed in a strike carried out a day earlier by an American drone that targeted his car in a vital neighborhood in Baghdad, during his funeral in Baghdad on Feb. 8.

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The war in Gaza is creating tensions across the Middle East. Nowhere more so than Iraq, where Iran-backed militias are attacking US bases and forcing a dangerous confrontation. We hear about it from our correspondent in Baghdad.