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

Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr has called on his supporters to continue a sit-in inside the parliament until his demands are met, days after they breached Baghdad's heavily fortified "green zone" and occupied the country's legislature.

Baghdad has declared a day of national mourning on Thursday for the victims of an attack attributed to Turkey on a tourist resort in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi says rapprochement talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia held in Baghdad have made "remarkable progress" and reached advanced stages.

Iraq’s PM Kadhimi orders the dispatch of a working team to Iran to discuss gas supply issues.

The Sadrist Movement led by top Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr boycotts talks with all of the country’s political factions about the establishment of a future government.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has arrived in Tehran to hold talks about mutual areas of interest as well as regional and international issues with top Iranian officials.