Members of Sadr’s Peace Brigades fighters gather during clashes with the Iraqi security forces near the Green Zone, in Baghdad
(Picture: REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani)Violent clashes between Iraqi security forces and the followers of a powerful Shia cleric have left at least 30 people dead in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
An Iraqi medical source has told Al Jazeera that at least 30 people were killed during the clashes which saw rocket propelled grenades launched into the heavily fortified centre of the capital that served as the headquarters of successive Iraqi regimes.
