Baghdad

Thousands of the Shi'ite Muslim cleric's loyalists stormed into the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Saturday, taking over the empty parliament building for the second time in a week.

The problem with Iraq is not just sectarianism; it is also a purposeful attempt by the parties to keep the central government weak.

Cartoonist Carol Isaacs, who often draws under the name Surreal McCoy, is set to bring the cinematic adaptation of her award-winning Wolf of Baghdad comic to Israel for the first time.

The protesters are ostensibly angry over the nomination of Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani, Iraq’s former minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who is seen to be a candidate for pro-Iran parties.

Iraq has no government and the country is teetering on the brink of chaos.

BEHIND THE LINES: The uptick in rocket fire appears more as a kind of ritual response to the killings of Soleimani and Muhandis than as the opening salvo of an effort to expel western forces.

A similar incident hours later targeted the Baghdad headquarters of the Azm party of another Sunni Muslim politician, Khamis al-Khanjar.

As in the case of Baghdad Diaries, none of the accounts I have seen refer to the long history and extraordinary efforts made by the Iraqis to develop such weapons.

An investigation into the attack has been opened by security forces.

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