{"id":245106,"date":"2020-02-16T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=245106"},"modified":"2020-02-16T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T12:26:12","slug":"rockets-strike-near-us-embassy-in-baghdad-no-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/16\/rockets-strike-near-us-embassy-in-baghdad-no-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets strike near US Embassy in Baghdad; no injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_245107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245107\" style=\"width: 849px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/U.S._Embassy_in_Baghdad_Iraq.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245107\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/U.S._Embassy_in_Baghdad_Iraq.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/U.S._Embassy_in_Baghdad_Iraq.png 849w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/U.S._Embassy_in_Baghdad_Iraq-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/U.S._Embassy_in_Baghdad_Iraq-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-245107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The new Embassy of the United States in Baghdad, Iraq. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=30720260\">Photo by United States Department of State &#8211; http:\/\/diplomacy.state.gov\/discoverdiplomacy\/explorer\/places\/170159.htm, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAGHDAD \u2014 At least four rockets hit near the sprawling\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Embassy in Baghdad and a Iraqi base hosting American troops inside the Green Zone early Sunday, but caused no casualties and only minor damage,\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and Iraqi officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came just before 3:30 a.m. local time, according to Col. Myles B. Caggins III, a spokesman for the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0military operation in\u00a0Iraq.\u00a0He only said the rockets hit the base hosting\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and other coalition forces.<\/p>\n<p>However, three Iraqi security officials said two of the rockets fell inside the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Embassy compound, while another hit near the coalition base. The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was the latest in a recent series of rocket and mortar strikes on Iraqi bases housing\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops. On Thursday, a mortar shell exploded in the K1 Iraqi military airbase in Kirkuk province in northern\u00a0Iraq.\u00a0No casualties were reported, Iraqi security officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian missile attack on\u00a0Iraq&#8217;s Ain al-Asad air base on Jan. 8 injured dozens of\u00a0U.S\u00a0service members. It was in retaliation for the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0drone strike in Baghdad that killed Iran&#8217;s most powerful general, Qassem Soleimani, on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Embassy in Baghdad has also been a flashpoint amid wider\u00a0U.S.-Iran tensions in the region, which have played out inside\u00a0Iraq\u00a0in recent weeks. Iraqi supporters of an Iran-backed militia stormed the embassy compound Dec. 31, smashing the main door and setting fire to the reception area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD \u2014 At least four rockets hit near the sprawling\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Embassy in Baghdad and a Iraqi base hosting American troops inside &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":245107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-qassim-abdul-zahra","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245108,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245106\/revisions\/245108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}