Feature: Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone opens to end 16 years of separation

 

Photo taken on June 4, 2019 shows the Monument to the Unknown Soldier inside the Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq. For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, main streets in Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone were fully opened to traffic on Tuesday, mending a 16-year rift between the city's residents and politicians well-secured beyond the zone's high concrete-walls. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)