in Iraq, the protesters have gathered again on the streets in spite of Friday’s spiraling violence. Friday and last night’s unrest victims are still being counted.
according to Various sources 17 to 25 people were killed and dozens injured, when a bunch of armed men attacked demonstrators in the capital Baghdad late on Friday.
It was a violent attack in weeks.
the News agency AFP, in turn, told reporters that the unmanned drone dropped a bomb on the radical shiiajohtaja as known to have become the Moqtada al-Sadr house in najaf.
AFP according to sources, Sadr himself is abroad.
Moqtada al-Sadr has supported the Iraq ravistelleita anti-government protests. The Friday after the attack he sent his followers in Baghdad to the streets to protect the minds of the callers.
If the data the drone strike are true, this could be a dangerous turnaround in the Iraqi situation. The country are from October shaken by large-scale protests, which security forces and neighboring countries the Iranian-supported paramilitary groups have responded to the often violently.
iraq’s leading shi’ite cleric, surah will be Ali al-Sistani said on Friday that the country’s new foreign minister had to choose, without foreign interference. This can keep as a reference to, inter alia, iran’s influence in Iraq.
Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned last week after the influential Sistani had pulled their support from the government.
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Sources: AFP, AP, Reuters
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