		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="111265417"
		 data-section="1">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><p>Iraqi authorities have reopened Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attempt to ease traffic jams in the capital.</p>
<p>Starting in the early hours of Sunday, officials removed checkpoints and opened major roads and tunnels that cut through the zone on the west bank of the Tigris River.</p>
<p>Cars will be allowed to pass through the area but trucks will be banned, officials said.</p>
<p>The Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government buildings and the sprawling US Embassy, will be open every day for 14 hours starting at 5am, Major General Jassim Yahya said.</p>
<p>The 4sq mile zone with its palm trees and monuments has been mostly off limits to the public since the 2003 invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>It was opened for the first time in 2019, but has since then closed and reopened again several times.</p>
<p>Traffic policeman Muhammad Mahmoud said the aim is to help people get to work on time, and it was ordered by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.</p>
<p>In the past, only Iraqis with special security badges could enter the area.</p>
<p>The walled off area surrounded by cement blast walls has become a hated symbol of the country’s inequality, fuelling the perception among Iraqis that their government is out of touch.</p>
<p>“We have been waiting for a long time for the Green Zone to fully become open,” said Baghdad resident Usama Hassan, who works at Baghdad University. “This will make our life easier.”</p>
			<div style="padding-bottom:15px;" class="wordads-tag" data-slot-type="belowpost">
				<div id="atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd32d45cf54">
					<script type="text/javascript">
						window.getAdSnippetCallback = function () {
							if ( false === ( window.isWatlV1 ?? false ) ) {
								// Use Aditude scripts.
								window.tudeMappings = window.tudeMappings || [];
								window.tudeMappings.push( {
									divId: 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd32d45cf54',
									format: 'belowpost',
								} );
							}
						}

						if ( document.readyState === 'loading' ) {
							document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', window.getAdSnippetCallback );
						} else {
							window.getAdSnippetCallback();
						}
					</script>
				</div>
			</div>
Discover more from London Glossy Post
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
