Residents in Baghdad are moving freely today, and cars are back on the roads following a curfew, according to reports this morning.
The three-day curfew in the city largely dampened sectarian violence that has pitched Iraq towards civil war. However, the weekend was not without incident.
Mortar fire killed 15 people in Baghdad on Sunday, with other reports of shooting around two Baghdad mosques. Elsewhere, five people were killed in a minibus and teenagers were shot dead as they played soccer.
More than 200 people have been killed since Wednesday when the Golden Mosque in Samarra was destroyed in a bombing that sparked a wave of violence and led the defence minister to warn of the danger of "endless civil war".
Iraqi leaders met late on Saturday to issue a televised midnight appeal for calm and renew pledges to form a unity government.
Religious leaders, including Shia militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr, joined the calls. Sadr, a rising force in the ruling but fractious Shia alliance, told a rally in the second city of Basra his followers would hold joint prayer services at Sunni mosques damaged in violence.
A bomb later caused damage at a Shia mosque in Basra and gunfire rattled around two Sunni mosques in Baghdad after dark.