UN chief on 'solidarity' visit to Iraq

Baghdad (AFP) March 1, 2023

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Iraq Wednesday for talks with senior officials in a show of "solidarity" after a drawn-out political crisis. The UN chief's visit, his first to Iraq in six years, comes as the war-torn country prepares to mark the 20th anniversary of the toppling of longtime dictator Saddam Hussein in a US-led invasion. Guterres said he wanted to demonstrate "