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The energy on display between the old rivals showed Asia's real football is played in Mesopotamia and Persia.
The Asian Cup group stage is advancing, with a day with plenty of Middle Eastern football action.
Iraq meets Vietnam and Saudi Arabia plays North Korea in their debut games for the Asian Cup.
A Slovenian football superstar has been signed up as the head coach of the Lions of Mesopotamia in a three-year contract thought to be worth $1.2m per year.
The first international club tie hosted in Iraq in over two decades ended in a 1-1 draw on Tuesday in the city of Karbala.
Iraq's al-Zawraa will face Lebanese side al-Ahed in Iraq's first hosting of a foreign team for a competitive match in decades.
Anime fanatics in war-torn Iraq have flocked to the country's annual festival celebrating Japanese animation and comic book culture.
A picture of Miss Iraq and Miss Israel posing together has caused an online stir, with some lauding coexistence and others viewing it as normalisation.
Iraq and Syria's national football teams drew 1-1 in a friendly game at the Karbala stadium south of Baghdad on Monday.
Kirkuk is on tender-hooks, as a tense stand-off between Iraq's army and Kurdish Peshmerga threatens to bring war to the oil-rich city. Words by Yomi Kleinmann, pictures by Adam McCaw.