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The loudspeaker screeches out a warning of a rocket attack at Union III, the US-led coalition base in Iraq's capital, Baghdad. The compound is in the Green Zone, an area built around what was once ...

Anti-government protests have erupted on a regular basis in Iraq in recent years ... When people tried to cross a bridge to reach the Green Zone - the location of the main government offices ...