IRAQ-POLITICS-UNREST

The burnt Iranian consulate is pictured in the southern Iraqi holy city of Najaf on November 28, 2019, two months into the country’s most serious social crisis in decades. – At least eight Iraqi protesters were shot dead yesterday in clashes with security forces in the southern city of Nasiriyah, medical and security sources said, as authorities cracked down on anti-government demonstrators after an attack on Iran’s consulate in Najaf. Around 50 others more wounded, several in critical condition, when security forces tried to retake two bridges in Nasiriyah that had been blocked by the protesters, the sources said, after reporting an earlier toll of two dead. (Photo by Haidar HAMDANI / AFP)