On Thursday night, at least four rockets were fired at the U.S. embassy in Iraq, according to The Military Times.
“Three of the missiles struck within the parameters of the American Embassy,” The Military Times reported. “Another hit a school located in a nearby residential complex. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk.”
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“An Iraqi military statement said a girl and a woman were injured in the attack, without providing more details,” The Military Times reported. “The statement said the rockets had been launched from the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad.”
The attack was the latest in a series that began last week on the two-year anniversary of the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike ordered by former President Donald Trump.
During the first attack, two armed drones were shot down as they approached an Iraqi military base housing U.S. forces, according to Reuters.
“[A]n official of the U.S.-led international military coalition said the base’s defence system had engaged ‘two fixed-wing suicide drones. They were shot down without incident,’” the outlet reported.
Footage from the debris of the attack revealed that one of the drones had the words “Soleimani’s revenge” written on its wing.
