Two car bombs in Southern Iraq have killed 31 people and wounded dozens more.

It's the latest in a series of large attacks claimed by the Islamic State group as the country grapples with a worsening political crisis.

A car bomb just outside Baghdad on Saturday killed at least 23 people.

On the political front, Shia Muslim activists who occupied Iraq's parliament yesterday have begun to leave Baghdad's government district.

Organisers used loudspeakers to call an end to the sit-in in the Green Zone.