By AFPIraq's top executive powers and major parties agreed Mondayat a meeting boycotted by powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to work towards holding early elections, a week after deadly unrest, the prime minister's office said.The president, pri...

By AFPSupporters of Iraq's powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr started to withdraw from Baghdad's Green Zone on Tuesday after he urged them to end a protest following violence that killed 23 of them.Sadr gave followers "60 minutes" to withdraw from the high...

By AFPUN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday called for "restraint" in Iraq and asked all parties to "take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation" as Baghdad's Green Zone descended into chaos, according to his spokesman.The secretary-general "has...

By AFPDozens of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Monday stormed the Republican Palace, a ceremonial building inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone of government buildings, a security source said.Angry protesters "entered the Republ...

By AFPSeveral hundred supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr launched a sit-in outside Iraq's top judicial body on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions in a showdown with a rival Shiite alliance.The Sadrists, who have already been camping outside parlia...

By AFPIraq's powerful Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr on Wednesday called on the judiciary to dissolve parliament by the end of next week, urging his supporters to keep up a sit-in outside the legislature.Iraq, which has been without a new governme...

Tens of thousands converged on Baghdad's Green Zone Friday for mass prayers in a new power play by Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr after his adversaries conditionally backed his call for early elections.Sadr, a longtime political and religious force...

By AFPThe United Nations mission in Iraq called on leaders Wednesday to put their country first and end a long-running political power struggle, as tensions soar in the war-scarred nation.Nearly 10 months on from elections, the oil-rich country still...

By AFPSupporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr occupied the country's parliament on Saturday with no plan to leave, deepening a months-long political standoff.It is the second time in days that supporters of the firebrand Shiite cleric have f...

Thousands of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr protested Saturday in a new show of strength three days after storming parliament in a country mired in crises.Brandishing Iraqi flags and portraits of Sadr, the protesters gathered at the...