US EditionDrone attack hits hotel in Baghdad, no injuries reported
A drone strike damaged the Al-Rasheed Hotel’s top floor with no casualties amid multiple intercepted attacks, signaling heightened militia tensions after a senior commander’s death.
- On Monday evening, a drone struck the top floor of the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad's Green Zone, causing damage but no casualties, Iraqi security officials told The Associated Press.
- Amid militia tensions, Kataib Hezbollah declared the killing of senior security commander Abu Ali al-Askari, while six PMF fighters were reported killed on Monday.
- Iraqi air defences intercepted two Katyusha rockets near the United States Embassy and shot down a drone near Erbil airport; two drones targeted the Majnoon oilfield on Monday.
- A street leading to the hotel was blocked by a large security deployment with firefighters and ambulances present at the Al-Rasheed Hotel.
- Iraq's oil minister Hayan Abdul-Ghani said the Kirkuk-to-Turkiye pipeline will be operational within a week to resume exports despite regional strains affecting Iraq's oil industry and the Strait of Hormuz closure.
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Drone attack reported at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
A wave of drones targeted the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, according to early reports. It was not immediately clear whether the embassy was hit or whether there was damage elsewhere in the Green Zone. The attack happened early Tuesday in Baghdad’s Green Zone, the heavily fortified district that houses Iraq’s government buildings, foreign embassies and the U.S. Embassy. The Jerusalem Post, citing Iraqi security officials, reported that at least…
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The source, the Shafaq News Agency, said that the sirens and the intercepts had been heard in the vicinity of the Embassy, after firing rockets towards the diplomatic compound, without immediate information on the extent of the damage or whether the attacks had resulted in injuries. This development came minutes after a series of attacks on the Embassy by four drones and hours after an attack by a drone hit the upper fence of the Rashid Hotel in…
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