Two rockets were fired at the US embassy in Baghdad, in the heavily guarded Green Zone, early this morning, sources close to the Iraqi security services told Reuters.
The C-RAM anti-aircraft defense systems that the Americans have installed to protect their military and diplomatic personnel intercepted one of the rockets, one of the sources said. But the second fell inside the perimeter of the embassy, according to Reuters sources.
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Sirens were heard in the US embassy building in the Green Zone, where government buildings and foreign diplomatic missions are located.
Since the beginning of 2021, there have been about fifty attacks against US interests in Iraq, where 2,500 US troops remain deployed as part of the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist organization.
