Shelling targeted Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone Monday (29 August), a security source said, after Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said he was quitting politics, sparking chaos in which 12 of his ...

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CAIRO, August 30. /TASS/. Most supporters of the movement of powerful Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr have withdrawn from Baghdad’s Green Zone. Al Jazeera television aired a video of emptied areas ...

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TASS/. Fierce armed clashes are reported from the vicinity of the Iraqi parliament building in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a heavy guarded diplomatic and government area, Al Arabiya said on Monday.

Hundreds of demonstrators in Baghdad gathered Saturday to protest the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and attempted to cross into a fortified area where the U.S. embassy is based.

"The government is making great private efforts, away from the media, to stop the attacks," an Iraqi official told Newsweek.

The biggest protest took place in Baghdad's Tahrir Square. When people tried to cross a bridge to reach the Green Zone - the location of the main government offices - security forces opened fire.