BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces deployed in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone early Sunday with the raid targeting “several politicians,” a security official told AFP. The Green Zone houses the US embassy and other diplomatic missions, as well as international institutions and government offices. High-ranking officials and politicians also live there. Video footage shared on local Telegram channels showed security forces in heavy vehicles such as tanks in the Green Zone, including a clip of them inside a compound and, in one instance, inside a house.

Iraqi military locked down Baghdad's Green Zone after heavy gunfire near the US Embassy, continuing an escalating pattern of attacks on western diplomatic

Press TV reported that the Iraqi army entered Baghdad's Green Zone with tanks and armoured vehicles, placing the heavily fortified district, which houses the US Embassy, under…