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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh began talks in Istanbul on Saturday, Turkish media reported, as tensions in the Middle East soar. One member of an Iran-backed paramilitary group was killed in an explosion earlier in the day at an Iraqi military base south of Baghdad, Iraq said. The US military said its forces had not conducted air strikes in Iraq today. Read our liveblog for the latest developments in the Middle East.