Iraq has suspended all flights to Belarus, the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority said on Friday, as a refugee crisis deepens on Belarus’s border with Lithuania. Iraqi refugees are using Belarus as an entry point for Lithuania, a European Union member state. Brussels says that about 2,700 migrants - most from Iraq - have crossed illegally into Lithuania from Belarus in recent months. Officials suspect the influx is being orchestrated by the government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in retaliation against EU sanctions, with flights ferrying migrants from Baghdad to Minsk. On the same day as the flight suspensions were announced, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hu
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