BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation on Friday after the country’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric called for lawmakers to reconsider their support for a government rocked by weeks of deadly anti-establishment unrest. Security forces meanwhile shot dead at least three people in the southern city of Nassiriya as clashes continued. More than a dozen members of the security forces have also died in clashes. It pits protesters from Shi’ite heartlands in Baghdad and the south against a corrupt Shi’ite-dominated ruling elite seen as pawns of Iran. Clashes between protesters and security forces broke out early on Friday in Nassiriya killing three people and wounding several others, hospital sources said.

Source: National Post November 29, 2019 13:07 UTC