US EditionRockets and Drones Target US Embassy in Baghdad Amid Escalating Iran Conflict
Rockets and drones struck the US embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone during the heaviest assault since the US-Israel conflict with Iran began, with air defenses intercepting some attacks.
- On March 17, rockets and at least five drones struck the U.S. embassy, Baghdad, with the C-RAM air defence system shooting down two drones while a third hit inside the compound.
- Amid the Iran–Israel–US war that began on Feb. 28, militias aligned with Tehran have attacked U.S. interests in Iraq, drawing the country into a proxy battleground, with attacks increasing since last month.
- Witnesses saw smoke rising after a projectile hit the al-Rasheed Hotel, Baghdad, and a separate strike on a house in al-Jadiriyah killed four people, including Iranian advisors.
- Iraqi security forces deployed across Baghdad and closed the Green Zone, Baghdad, while Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani vowed to 'hunt down the perpetrators of these acts and bring them to justice immediately'.
- Fighting entering its 18th day has produced cross-border incidents, with Iran striking UAE airspace causing a death in Abu Dhabi's Bani Yas area and hitting Fujairah's oil facility for a second day.
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The US Embassy in Iraq has been targeted by a drone and rocket attack, according to sources of security services from Baghdad, which describes it as “the most intense since the beginning of the series of attacks”. The US Embassy article in Iraq, designed by drones and rockets. The Gulf states ask the US to definitively neutralise Iran VIDEO for the first time in Romania TV.
Iranian drones lit up the skies over Baghdad during an attack on the US embassy on Tuesday morning.
Explosions Rock Baghdad As Drone Strikes Target US Embassy
Witnesses recorded explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on March 17 as drone strikes targeted the US Embassy compound in the heavily fortified Green Zone. Cell phone videos showed smoke and fire as air defenses intercepted several drones. US officials initially reported no injures at the embassy.
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