Green Zone

An Iraqi military parade celebrating final victory over Islamic State is underway in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, an Iraqi military spokesman told Reuters on Sunday, Reuters reports. 

An Iraqi military parade celebrating final victory over Islamic State, Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is underway in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, an Iraqi military spokesman told Reuters on Dec. 10.

Followers of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have temporarily left the highly guarded Green Zone, where the parliament, government buildings and most of the embassies are, in the Iraqi capital, after a more than 24-hour occupation, a spokesman for the protestors has said.