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Urgent: Protesters begin withdrawal from Baghdad Green Zone

Xinhua, May 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Sunday started to withdraw from the Green Zone in central Baghdad in honor for a major Shiite ritual and in to give time for the political parties to agree on reforms demanded by the protesters. Endit