On Friday, Iraqi security forces in Baghdad have fired tear gas and live bullets at protesters who had stormed the city's heavily fortified Green Zone.
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr broke into Baghdad's Green Zone for the second time in three weeks on Friday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaking in a late-night televised speech, condemned the breach of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone by protesters.
Senior Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has met with the country’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ahead of a deadline set for the premier to enact political reforms.
Prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has started a promised sit-in inside Baghdad’s Green Zone district, vowing to continue the protest action until the government fulfills its pledges for carrying out reforms.
Supporters of Iraq's powerful Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stage a sit-in outside the walls of Baghdad's fortified Green Zone to press the government to see through a move to stem endemic corruption, according to Reuters.
At least 44 civilians were killed and injured 77 on Friday morning when two bombs exploded in central Baghdad, security sources said.
Iraqis have defied a rash of attacks that killed 14 people to vote in the country's first general election since US troops withdrew, with premier Nuri al-Maliki proclaiming "certain" victory.
Baghdad, as a model city in the Arab world in 1970s, after decades of seemingly endless conflict, is now the world's worst city, a consulting group says.
A series of blasts have hit near Baghdad's heavily-fortified "Green Zone", home to the prime minister's office and several Western embassies, killing at least 25 people, security sources say.