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Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma

Reporter · Newsparlor

The Baghdad Convention Center, inside the Green Zone
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Iraq arrests lawmakers and officials in Green Zone anticorruption raids

  • Iraqi security forces detained several officials, including five members of parliament, in overnight raids inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone — part of a widening corruption investigation that began with a former deputy oil minister, and one that is already stirring questions about its political timing.

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