Baghdad’s ‘Green Zone’ reopens

Also known as the International Zone, this area will now be open for Iraqis to pass through without checkpoints.

Getting around Baghdad will be a bit easier for everyone these days now that the International Zone is being handed over to Iraqi police.

The heavily fortified Zone has been a symbol of insecurity for years.

Now, security forces are effectively declaring the Iraqi capital safe by removing the checkpoints and barriers.

 

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan reports.