Shafaq News/ a self-proclaimed advisor of the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Saturday called for holding an early election that excludes all the political parties that took part in the governance since the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Mohammed Salih al-Iraqi, who runs a Twitter account named "the leader's advisor" and is widely believed

Shafaq News/ The absence of population on the border areas between the southwest of Diyala and Baghdad and the lack of security presence contributed to the spread of ISIS strongholds, a local official said.

Officials in Diyala confirmed that about 30 villages between the southwest of the Governorate and the outskirts of Baghdad are uninhabited.

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Shafaq News / On Saturday, a security source reported that PKK members kidnapped a young man involved in returning workers to Syria.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that "elements of the Kurdistan Workers' Party kidnapped a man from the village of Bir Qasim in Sinjar district for smuggling Syrians who worked in digging tunnels for PKK and wanted

Shafaq News/ The leader of the Wisdom (Al-Hikma) Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, called the political forces for restraint, sessing that running early elections is an option that needs discussions.

Speaking at the Islamic Conference to Combat Violence against Women, Al-Hakim addressed the Sadrists, "We were the first to encourage you to stop boycotting