UAE airlines Flydubai and Emirates have cancelled flights to and from Baghdad as violent clashes in the Iraqi capital escalated.
Several people have been killed and wounded in the city’s fortified green zone following clashes that erupted between rival groups that include militias aligned with Iran after Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said he would leave politics.
Flydubai said on Tuesday that it has cancelled flights to/from Bahgdad on August 30 and 31.
“We will continue to monitor the…