BAGHDAD (AP) — At least three rockets targeted the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Sunday, Iraqi security officials said, sparking fears of renewed unrest as next month's anniversary of the slaying of an Iranian general draws n
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Trump administration has warned Iraq that it will close its embassy in Baghdad if the government does not take swift and decisive action to end persistent rocket and other attacks by Iranian-backed militias and rogue armed elements on American and allied interests in the...
TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) – Iraq’s anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah says the US turned its embassy compound at the heavily fortified Green Zone in the center of Baghdad into a military and security command center, conspiring against the Iraqi nation. Abu Ali al-Askari, a senior security...
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Rockets landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, officials said, causing damage in the area. The Associated Press reported that two Katuysha rockets touched down in and around the Green Zone in Baghdad, an area that includes the embassy. The
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (MNA) – At least three Katyusha rockets landed within Baghdad’s Green Zone on Sunday where government buildings and diplomatic missions, including the US embassy, is located.
Matt Tueller, the envoy, had been on previously scheduled personal travel and was returning to the embassy, an official said. This is a modal window. undefined OK Close Modal Dialog Protests rage at US embassy in Baghdad The US president spoke with the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abd al...
June 16, 2014 --About 275 Marines and Army troops were deployed to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad today and four warships steamed towards Iraq as tensions rose due to the advance of a radical Islamic insurgency. The U.S. took the additional precautions as ISIS -- the Islamic State of Iraq...
December 31: Pro-Iranian protesters, demonstrating against the American airstrikes, attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad, scaling walls and forcing the gates open. January 3: Trump said he ordered a precision drone strike at the Baghdad airport to “terminate” Soleimani, a top Iranian commander...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made no mention of a plan to “blow up” the US Embassy in Baghdad in an interview today, instead referring to the intelligence community assessment that it was “a big attack.” “It was going to be against the United States of America, likely in the regi...