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At least three Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the US embassy, two Iraqi security sources said on Sunday.
The Iraqi military said that an “outlaw group” fired rockets at Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone.
The rockets hit a residential complex inside the Green Zone, damaging buildings and cars but causing no casualties, a military statement said.
Sirens blared from the embassy compound inside the zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions.
An anti-rocket system diverted one of the rockets, said one security official whose office is inside the Green Zone.
No casualties were reported, sources said.
US officials blame Iran-backed militia for regular rocket attacks on US facilities in Iraq, including near the embassy in Baghdad. No known Iran-backed groups have claimed responsibility.
An array of militia groups announced in October that they had suspended rocket attacks on US forces on condition that Iraq’s government present a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops.
But a rocket strike on the US embassy on November 18 was also a clear sign that Iranian-backed militias had decided to resume attacks on US bases, according to Iraqi security officials.
Washington, which is slowly reducing its 5,000 troops in Iraq, threatened to shut its embassy unless the Iraqi government reins in Iran-aligned militias.


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Rockets targeting US embassy in Baghdad land inside city’s Green Zone

The US embassy complex in Baghdad in the heavily fortified Green Zone, on the west bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad. Photo: AFP

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Over 30 rockets hit Iraqi base housing US troops, second attack in less than a week

Katyusha rocket launchers found by the Iraqi Army. Photo: Handout via Reuters

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 12, 2018 an Iraqi Shiite fighter of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force secures the border in al-Qaim in the Anbar province, opposite Albu Kamal in Syria's Deir Ezzor region on November 12, 2018. - An air strike killed 26 fighters of Iraqi paramilitary group Hashed al-Shaabi in eastern Syria after a deadly attack on US-led coalition troops in Iraq, a war monitor said on March 12, 2020. Updating its toll for the Marcg 11 strike, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was probably carried out by the coalition. The coalition did not immediately provide comment. Before the strike near the border town of Albu Kamal, rockets were fired at a military base north of Baghdad hosting coalition troops, killing two Americans and one Briton. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

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US officials blame Iran-backed militia for regular rocket attacks on US facilities in Iraq
No known Iran-backed groups have claimed responsibility and no casualties were reported



The Iraqi military said that an ‘outlaw group’ fired rockets at Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone.


Rockets targeting US embassy in Baghdad land inside city’s Green Zone

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US officials blame Iran-backed militia for regular rocket attacks on US facilities in Iraq

No known Iran-backed groups have claimed responsibility and no casualties were reported