Feature: Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone opens to end 16 years of separation

Vehicles run on a highway inside the Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, on June 4, 2019. For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, main streets in Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone were fully opened to traffic on Tuesday, mending a 16-year rift between the city's residents and politicians well-secured beyond the zone's high concrete-walls. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)