Shafaq News/ The deep political deadlock in Iraq has entered its 10th month with no solution in sight and fears there could be a violent escalation.

Why it matters: Many are concerned the political crisis — the longest in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein — will lead to a flare-up of armed conflict on the streets bet

Shafaq News/ A self-proclaimed advisor of Muqtada al-Sadr warned the "authority mouthpieces" that accused the Shiite Coordination Framework of attempting to form the next federal government to "sell and loot" the rest of Iraq.

In a statement scanned and posted on Twitter, Salih Al-Iraqi said, "They want to form a government to complete selling what

Shafaq News/ Kurdish and Sunni parties said they would not attend the national dialogue meetings in the absence of the Sadrist movement, a source from inside the Coordination Framework revealed on Thursday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the leaders of the Coordination Framework, a consortium of mainly Iran-backed Shiite political forces,

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said on Wednesday that the Iraqi and the Peshmerga forces cooperate and coordinate to protect the borders.

The spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command, Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, told Shafaq News Agency, "During the recent visit of the Minister of Interior to the borders with Syria,