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Urgent: Followers of prominent Shiite cleric storm Baghdad Green Zone

Xinhua, April 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

Hundreds of followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday stormed the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad to hold a sit-in in front of the parliament building. Endit