Iraqi security forces fired tear gas at thousands of protesters Saturday to keep them from reaching the government and diplomatic enclave of the Iraqi capital, in a rekindling of mass demonstrations against the government that have clogged Baghdad’s streets over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of protesters, mostly acolytes of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, seeking what they said are political reforms marched towards the heavily...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 11, 2017 14:26 UTC