A US military source said that missiles fell at dawn today, Sunday, near the American embassy in the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad, and the attack came amid a threat by Iraqi armed factions to respond to the assassination of a prominent leader in the popular crowd Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in an American air strike more than a month ago.
Reuters news agency quoted a US military official as saying that several explosions resulting from a missile attack rocked the military base of the Washington-led coalition in Iraq, without clarifying whether the attack was behind the dead.
For its part, the French news agency quoted its correspondent as saying that planes flew overhead after the attack.
Sirens sounded in the heavily fortified Green Zone, where the US embassy and a coalition base are located.
Missiles were fired at the US base in the Green Zone shortly after a leader in the al-Nujaba movement, another faction in the Popular Mobilization, announced the start of a countdown to attacks on US forces in Iraq.
Since the assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, with the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, in a US raid near Baghdad airport on January 3, several military bases including Americans in Iraq have been subjected to missile attacks that resulted in no casualties.
And last Thursday, a Katyusha missile landed at a military base that includes American soldiers in Kirkuk (northern Iraq). The same base was hit in late December of last December by a major missile attack that killed an American contractor.
In response, the American army bombed several targets of the Iraqi Hezbollah - one of the components of the popular crowd - which resulted in the killing of dozens of its members, and then subsequently carried out the raid that killed Soleimani and the engineer, which Iran responded by striking Ein al-Assad base in Anbar Province (western Iraq). ).