IRAQ - BAGHDAD - PROTESTS Stock Image

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IRAQ, Baghdad: Demonstrators gather and confront police after planned government pay cuts to salary on December 29, 2015. The ongoing war with ISIS has hit the country's oil prices and caused a severe financial crisis in the nation. The cuts are another hit to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's government, which has also come under fire for corruption.(PLEASE NOTE THE PICTURES WERE TAKEN DECEMBER 29, 2015. THE CONTRIBUTORS CAMERA IS SET TO THE INCORRECT DATE.)

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