Shafaq News/ Sirens sounded at the US embassy compound in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, over an "unknown object" spotted in the sky of the ultra-secure Green Zone, a source revealed on Saturday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the suspected Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flew outside the airspace of the compound when the sirens sounded.

Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 2,286 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Saturday.

In its daily epidemiological report on COVID-19, the Ministry reported 833 recovery cases and one mortality.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2,353,900, of whom

Shafaq News/ A self-proclaimed advisor of Muqtada al-Sadr on Saturday said that the Sadrist movement's leader resolutely rejects any political settlement that involves "consensus" and "joining hands with corrupt people".

"Our leader has sworn that he would not join hands with corrupt people," Mohammad Saleh Al-Iraqi said in a post on Facebook,

Shafaq News/ Iraq's caretaker government allocates three billion dinars to address with the deficit in the interior ministry's payroll and increases the private generators' share of fuel in summer.

Headed by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the cabinet held a regular meeting earlier today, Sunday.

In a press conference after the meeting, Minister