Shafaq News/ Iraq's parliament will meet on Thursday to "elect the President of the Republic," a press release from speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi's office said on Tuesday, after months of political impasse.

More than a year after the last general election in Iraq, al- Halboosi's office said Thursday's parliamentary session would have "a single item

Shafaq News/ The US Department of State spokesperson, Ned Price, expressed that Washington supports the Iraqi-Iraqi dialogue, calling the parties not to resort to violence.

"A year ago, Iraqis voted in credible early elections with the hope that they would result in a government that reflects the will of the Iraqi people. Since then, Iraq's

Shafaq News/ The leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, testified on Tuesday in the audio leaks case in Al-Karkh/Baghdad court.

A leader of the Sadrist movement, Judge Jaafar al-Moussawi, revealed that the court released Al-Maliki on bail.

The leaked audio was released last July when Al-Maliki claimed the Muqtada Al Sadr is backed by

Shafaq News/ Iraqi artist Basem al-Mahdi created a massive calligraphy earthwork to raise awareness for the fading marchlands in southern Iraq.

The Iraqi artist used a 2000-meters-squared swath of open land as his canvas to create a massive earthwork that is best seen from the sky.

With the Kufi font, al-Mahdi wrote in Arabic "Save the Marches" on