After a night of violence that left at least 30 people dead and nearly 300 wounded, calm has returned to Baghdad for the time being after Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his supporters to withdraw from Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone. In a televised speech, al-Sadr gave his supporters an hour to leave the region, and minutes later some started complying and could be seen abandoning their positions. Al-Sadr warned his supporters that he would “distance” himself from them if they failed to withdraw in the…
