From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — Sixteen people died in Baghdad’s Sadr City as fresh clashes broke out between security forces and Shiite militiamen in the capital on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.
The city’s Green Zone, which houses diplomatic missions and much of Iraq’s government, also came under renewed attack by rockets or mortars early Wednesday. The U.S. embassy confirmed the shelling, but said there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The bloodshed served as stark reminders of Iraq’s continuing instability five years after U.S. troops swept into Baghdad and toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime on April 9, 2003. The euphoria of victory soon dissipated — pummeled first by a Sunni insurgency, then Sunni-Shiite slaughter and now battles against Shiite militiamen.
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