Rockets hit several Iraqi base, which includes American forces near the Washington embassy in Baghdad, in the early hours of yesterday morning, in a new attack in a series of strikes targeting American headquarters and soldiers in Iraq during the past four months, which numbered 19 missile attacks, since the end of October the past.
A spokesman for the US-led international coalition in Iraq, General Miles Caggins, said in a tweet on the social networking site «Twitter»: “The Iraqi base, which includes forces from the coalition, was hit by small missiles in the international area, at 03.24 Iraq time, and the attack did not Lead to injuries. ”
The base known as "Union 3" is the headquarters of the US-led coalition in Iraq since 2014, to help local forces fight the terrorist organization "ISIS".
For its part, the Iraqi forces announced the fall of three Katyusha rockets inside the Green Zone, where the headquarters of the coalition forces, the US embassy complexes, the United Nations and government agencies, and a fourth rocket landed in the "Popular Mobilization Logistics Support Headquarters", which includes armed factions integrated into the Iraqi army. Since the end of last October, the American embassy in Baghdad, and bases comprising American forces in Iraq, have been subjected to 19 missile attacks.
After yesterday’s attack, sirens sounded across the compound of the US embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone, according to an American military and diplomatic source residing in a nearby area.
On the other hand, six demonstrators were injured as a result of an attack by gunmen on the tents of the sit-in, and set them on fire, between the two areas of Al-Khilani and Al-Tahrir in central Baghdad, hours after the Prime Minister-designate, Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, announced the completion of his new cabinet, and presented it to parliament this week.