According to local media reports, on the evening of the 29th local time, some militants clashed and exchanged fire with Iraqi security forces near the "Green Zone" and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq.
Iraqi Shiite religious leader and leader of the Sadr movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, announced on the evening of the 29th that he would go on a hunger strike until the end of the violence in Iraq.
Sadr announced earlier in the day that he would permanently withdraw from Iraqi politics, followed by media reports that his supporters broke into the Prime Minister's Office in the "Green Zone" of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
The local security department said that Iraqi security forces suffered casualties in the process of driving out the demonstrators. Three people on both sides were killed and more than 50 were injured.
(Headquarters reporter Sun Hu)