BAGHDAD, April 27 (UPI) -- Iraq's Parliament on Tuesday approved Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's proposals to partially reshuffle the country's Cabinet as hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Baghdad.
Under the order of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the protesters gathered in Baghdad's Tahrir Square and demanded new government leaders and reforms that have been delayed for years. Many in Iraq are dissatisfied with the state of the country over rampant corruption, economic stagnation and the Iraqi military's inefficiency against the Islamic State.