Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan launched a so-called "long march" in the capital Islamabad on Friday in order to press the incumbent government to hold early elections.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Tuesday that he would begin a protest march with his supporters from the eastern city of Lahore to Pakistan's capital.

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.

Thousands of Armenians rallied in Yerevan’s central Freedom Square on Sunday to show their support for former President Robert Kocharian and his new political alliance ahead of an early election next month.

Iraq's top cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani endorses early parliamentary elections set for June 2021.

Iraq’s president welcomes the prime minister’s call for early elections next year.