Baghdad has hosted several meetings between Riyadh and Tehran to solve disputes with dialogue, which was suspended again amid soaring Middle East tensions.
Sadr is paving the way for pro-Iranian parties to increase their seats in the Council of Representatives.
Heavy traffic in the Iraqi capital has been a bane of residents' lives, at times mounting to armed fights between the drivers and traffic police.
Tehran and Riyadh severed diplomatic relations in January 2016 following an attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after Shia cleric Nimr al Nimr was executed by Saudi authorities.
Authorities in several provinces, including Baghdad, ordered government offices to shut, while schools nationwide were closed due to the eighth dust storm to have lashed the country since mid-April.
The success of the cross-border offensive depends on the military’s airborne operations and the role of the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Why does Washington give Tehran’s violent proxies – which today are aiding Russia against Ukraine – a free pass?
Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran was the only book salvaged when Abbasid Caliphate’s famed libraries with thousands of rare books were destroyed in the Mongol army’s Siege of Baghdad.
Lack of a quorum and legal issues have held up the vote, deepening war-scarred Iraq's political uncertainty.
A recent missile attack on the northern city of Erbil prompted the switch to Saudi Arabia for Thursday's game, FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation have announced.
The missiles fell in northern Iraq's Erbil, which hosts US-led coalition troops, officials say, but no casualties were reported.
The court decision stated that the oil and gas law of the Kurdish Regional Government goes against the constitution of the country.
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