Multiple Rockets Fired At US Embassy In Baghdad, 2 Injured

Baghdad: Several rockets hit the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses the US embassy in central Baghdad, wounding a woman and a child, the Iraqi military said. “The innocent people in the Green Zone were attacked by several rockets fired from the Doura neighborhood in southern Baghdad on Thursday, targeting headquarters of diplomatic missions, which are protected by the Iraqi forces,” the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.Also Read - Rockets Hit Area Near US Embassy in Baghdad, 19th Attack on Its Assets in Iraq

One of the rockets fell on a school building inside the zone, wounding a woman and a girl child, according to the statement. Meanwhile, an Interior Ministry source anonymously told Xinhua that the air defense weapons protecting the US embassy opened fire on two rockets and blew them up before reaching their targets, while a third rocket landed on a school building, causing damage, Xinhua news agency reported.

Earlier in January, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called the attacks on Iraqi military bases “absurd,” stressing the end of the combat mission of the US-led coalition forces in Iraq after their withdrawal from the country.