At least 5,000 cases of respiratory problems resulting from dust storms have been registered in different parts of Iraq, the country’s Health Ministry said on Thursday. Thick clouds of dust have engulfed most of Iraq since Wednesday night, prompting health authorities to call on people, mainly asthma patients, to stay indoors. At least 2,000 cases of breathing difficulties and one fatality have been recorded in the capital Baghdad, the Health Ministry’s spokesman, Saif al-Badr, said, according to Iraq’s state news agency INA. The official did not elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the …