The Security Council has urged the Iraqi parties to refrain from violence.

The leader of Iraqi anti-terror Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq resistance group has called for speeding up the formation of the new government, amid an ongoing nearly-year long political stalemate in the country.

As the political turmoil in Iraq subsides, Iran says it wants the neighboring Arab country to be stable and powerful.

Iraqi protesters withdraw from the high-security Green Zone in the capital, Baghdad, after the country’s prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to end the violence within an hour.

The chairman of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units says the group supports a political solution to the ongoing crisis in the Arab country.

Iraq's prominent Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says he is quitting politics and closing his institutions amid a deepening political deadlock in the country.

Hundreds Sadr’s supporters have launched a sit-in outside Iraq’s highest judicial body, reiterating their calls for the dissolution of the Iraqi parliament and holding early elections.