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For safety reasons, many Iraqi officials hurried to leave Baghdad's Green Zone, which found itself in the epicenter of popular unrest

On Sunday, doubts hung over a scheduled parliamentary vote for Iraq’s president after the Iraqi Supreme Court temporarily suspended Iraqi Representative Hoshyar Zebari, a frontrunner for the post, and leading legislative factions announced a boycott. The decisions not to attend yesterday’s session highlight the political divisions in the war-scarred country hobbled by corruption and poverty. The largest legislative bloc, holding 73 seats in the Iraqi Council of Representatives and led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, was the first to boycott, saying on Saturday that it would not attend th...

The new Iraqi Council of Representatives on Sunday opened with a heated inaugural session, three tense months after legislative elections won by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the likely kingmaker of the next government. Al-Sadr, 47, who once led an anti-US militia and who has a large following, is expected to have the key say in who is to serve as the next prime minister, a post held by Mustafa al-Kadhemi. Sunday saw the swearing in of the 329 members of the unicameral parliament and the re-election of Iraqi Representative Mohammed al-Halbousi, who is Sunni, as speaker. However, a dispute bro...