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Gunmen seized 18 Turkish personnel from a Ankara-based construction company in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday morning in what appears to be a targeted kidnapping.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrive at the OIC/Arab League meeting in Riyadh. The summit meeting is expected to underscore demands that fighting in Gaza end before the Israel-Hamas war draws in other countries. IMAGES
Protesters clash with security forces near the Swedish embassy in Baghdad during demonstrations ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden. Swedish authorities approved an assembly to be held outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, where organisers plan to burn a copy of the Koran as well as an Iraqi flag. IMAGES SOUNDBITES
People brandish portraits of religious leader Moqtada Sadr after protesters set fire to the Swedish embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden. IMAGES
Images of protesters on top of a building near the Swedish embassy in Bagdad after they set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital early Thursday. IMAGES