Shafaq News / Salih Mohammed al-Iraqi's page disclosed, on Thursday, some of the reasons that pushed the prominent Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to quit politics:

"1-The government cannot be formed without involving corrupt, blind followers, and sectarians.

2-Independent MPs who had a neutral position of the national majority government; some for

Shafaq News/ Presidential candidate Khaled Sheikh Siddiq urged the political forces in Iraq to seize the current opportunity to end the political deadlock, calling for activating the role of the presidency.

"Iraq stands in the face of an opportunity to get out of its political crisis, and we have had a long delay stuck in limbo between the fear of

Shafaq News / A reliable source revealed that the Coordination Framework has established three committees to oversee the process of forming the new government.

The source told Shafaq News agency that one of the committees will be responsible for preparing the government program. The second committee includes officials that represented the Framework

Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 2769 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Thursday.

In its daily epidemiological report on COVID-19, the Ministry registered 811 recovery cases and two mortalities.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2348662 of whom