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.

Muqtada al-Sadr says he has not received a tangible response from the Iraqi political parties to his proposal to hold a public debate.

The UN has called on various political factions to set aside differences and look for "urgent solutions" to the political crisis.