Security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition in an attempt to disperse the crowds. Iraqi security forces on Sunday installed additional blast walls and layers of razor wire around the Green Zone. Iraq's political crisis has left the government deadlocked as security forces struggle to fight the Islamic State group. A preliminary investigation into Friday's clashes between protesters and Iraqi security forces has revealed that police and military guards did not fire directly into the crowd of demonstrators, according to a statement released Sunday by Saad al-Hadithi, the spokesman for Iraq's prime minister. "Blocking the bridges is no longer safeguarding the Green Zone," Nasir al-Zuhairi, a Baghdad resident complained — implying that it would not make the area safer.

Source: ABC News May 22, 2016 07:15 UTC