Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has told his followers to continue their sit-in inside Iraq’s government zone, and called for the dissolution of the parliament and early elections

Thousands of Shiites gathered in Baghdad for a counter-rally called by Iran-backed groups against their rival, an influential cleric whose followers are staging a sit-in inside the Iraqi parliament, have left the area

Kuwait says it has formed a new government to defuse a protracted political feud that has blocked economic reforms in the oil-rich state

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters breached Baghdad’s parliament Wednesday chanting anti-Iran curses in a demonstration against a nominee for prime minister by Iran-backed parties

Riot police have used water cannons to repel demonstrators who pulled down cement blast walls at the gate of Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, home to government buildings and foreign embassies

Tens of thousands of Iraqis are attending a mass prayer in Baghdad called for by an influential Shiite cleric

A senior U.N. official for Libya has condemned the storming of the parliament’s headquarters by angry demonstrators

Israel’s parliament has voted to dissolve itself, triggering the country’s fifth election in just over three years

Israel’s parliament has voted to dissolve itself, sending the country to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years