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Airports close across Middle East as Israel-Iran conflict shutters region’s airspace

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Dozens of airports have stopped all flights or severely reduced operations, leaving tens of thousands stranded and others unable to flee the conflict or travel home.

Many in the region fear a wider conflict as they watch waves of attacks across their skies every night .

Israel launched a major attack Friday with strikes in the Iranian capital of Tehran and elsewhere, killing senior military officials.

Baghdad has reached a deal with Turkey that would allow Iraqis abroad to travel to Turkey and return home overland.

Some Iraqis stranded in Iran opted to leave by land, with drones and airstrikes around them.

“It looked like fireworks in the night sky,” student Yahia al-Suraifi says.

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