Uneasy calm in Baghdad after assassination attempt on Iraq PM

Iraqi protesters who reject the results of the recent parliamentary elections have been holding sit-ins near the high-security Green Zone as an uneasy calm begins to settle in Baghdad after a failed attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi early on Sunday morning.

The same group of protesters are also now denying their involvement with the drone attack that hit the Iraqi prime minister’s residence in the Green Zone.

Media reports, citing security sources and government officials, say that at least one Iran-backed militia was responsible for the attack, which many analysts say, bears the hallmarks of the militia groups who have rejected the election results and threatened to resort to force.