The Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a statement clarifying that Egypt is following the rapid developments in Iraq “with great concern”, calling for containing the situation and “avoiding any escalation”, after a US air strike in which Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was assassinated in Baghdad.
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