Iraq's top Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has blamed the government for the “bloodshed” during recent unrest on Iraqi streets, and gave Baghdad two weeks to release the findings of a probe into the 104 deaths recorded during the protests since October 1.
Iraqi President Barham Salih has condemned violence against protesters after more than 100 people were killed in less than a week during antigovernment demonstrations across the country.
A top United Nations official condemned violence related to protests in Iraq, saying that “this must stop” after the reported five-day death toll surged to near 100 people.
The human rights commission of Iraq's parliament has said that the death toll at mass protests in Baghdad and cities across southern Iraq has risen to 93 as the unrest entered its fifth day.
Prominent Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called for the government to resign and for early elections as protests intensified across the country.
Iraq’s prime minister says protesters are “correct” to demand an end to corruption, but he condemned recent unrest that has led to more than 30 deaths as “the destruction of the state.”
A blast emanated in Baghdad late on October 2, heard from the fortified Green Zone where government buildings and foreign embassies are located in the Iraqi capital, witnesses told Reuters.
At least two people have been killed and 200 others wounded in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters in Baghdad and the southern city of Nasiriyah, officials say.
Three children look happy and healthy now with their grandparents in Georgia, but that's after living for a year with their mother in an Iraqi jail. Their father, an Islamic State militant, was killed in Iraq, and the Georgian government is still trying to bring her home.
Four bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, wounding a total of 14 people.
Iraq’s leaders on August 26 condemned Israel’s air strikes the previous day that struck bases and weapons caches belonging to Iraqi paramilitary groups.
A former Blackwater security guard has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 10 men, two women, and two boys, aged 9 and 11, dead.
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