Iraq Situation Report: October 17-21, 2019
October 22, 2019 - ISW Press![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/ISW%20Map%20-%20Iraq%20SITREP%20-%2020191021.png?itok=zm5gEq0e)
Iraqi cleric Muqtada al Sadr called for renewed protests in a statement released on the Shi’a religious holiday of Arba’een on October 19. Sadr accused the government of being “incapable of reform.” The Iraqi government is meanwhile establishing a new force to suppress further protests.