Shafaq News/ Extremist groups infesting the territories of Riyadh, Rashad, and al-Abbas are a threat to Kirkuk, the second speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Shakhwan Abdullah, said on Monday, calling for a security action to defuse those "ticking bombs".

Speaking to Shafaq News Agency,

Shafaq News/ The chairperson of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) Commission, Falih al-Fayyadh, on Monday waived a lawsuit against civil activist Haidar al-Zaydi.

The activist Haidar Hamid al-Zaydi was sentenced to three years in prison after he wrote a Facebook post

Shafaq News/ The political forces will circumvent the recommendations of Iraq's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and bend them for their personal interests, Sunni politician Atheel al-Nujaifi said on Monday.

Earlier today, Ayatollah al-Sistani received a delegation from the

Shafaq News/ A delegation from the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIL (UNITAD) headed by Special Adviser Christian Ritscher visited on Monday Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in his residence in Najaf, an