Facts

• For the second day in a row on Thursday, and following weeks of relative calm, four rockets landed in Baghdad’s "Green Zone" - the area in which Iraqi government buildings and foreign missions are located.
• Local security forces stated that no one has claimed responsibility for the attack and no deaths were reported, though Iraqi state news reported that four security officers were wounded.
• The attack came after supporters of Iraqi Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday attempted to storm the Green Zone while parliament held a vote on the resignation of speaker Mohammed Halbousi. However, riot police confronted the protesters around the time that three rockets were fired into the area.
• The demonstrators' goal was to prevent parliament from convening, as al-Sadr's supporters are anxious that the Speaker of Parliament has shifted his support for the pro-Iran Coordination Framework Alliance (CFA). The protesters aim to block the naming of a new PM and the formation of a new governing coalition that excludes al-Sadr.
• Iraq's political scene has been mired by deadlock for almost a year since the October 2021 elections, in which al-Sadr's movement won the largest bloc in parliament but couldn't form a government due to objections from the CFA. The "Sadrist'" bloc then resigned in June.
• Last month, the dispute between al-Sadr and the pro-Iran CFA led to the worst armed clashes Baghdad has seen in years, with scores of dead and wounded as al-Sadr's militia attacked the Green Zone. Al-Sadr eventually stood down and called for his forces to withdraw from the city.