Shafaq News/ The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, on Sunday announced the "liberation" of the Green Zone, calling on his followers to push for a complete overhaul of the political system, including a new constitution, and expel the country's elites whom he condemned as corrupt.

"The peaceful spontaneous revolution that liberated the

Shafaq News/ The leaders of the Coordination Framework convened in Baghdad's Jadriyah to discuss the demonstrations of Muqtada al-Sadr's followers in the Green Zone yesterday, a source revealed on Sunday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the meeting that began earlier this evening in the residence of Ammar al-Hakim, head of al-Hekmah

Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 1,026 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Sunday.

In its daily epidemiological report on COVID-19, the Ministry reported 3,215 recovery cases and two mortalities.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2,444,798, of whom

Shafaq News/ Supporters of the firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called in a session inside the parliament hall to announce the leader of the Sadrist movement a ruler of Iraq "in the name of the people".

Yesterday, al-Sadr followers occupied the country's parliament with no plan to leave, deepening a months-long political standoff.

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