Iraqi armed factions intensified targeting the US presence in Baghdad and other areas of the country, while the international coalition warned of the danger of undermining the authorities of the Iraqi state institutions.

The Iraqi army announced that 3 missiles fell at dawn today, Thursday, near the US embassy in Baghdad.

And the French news agency reported that the US C-RAM air defense system launched interceptor missiles at dawn on Thursday to counter this missile attack.

The Iraqi army said that the three missiles did not hit the embassy, ​​but rather landed nearby in the heavily fortified Green Zone.

The targeting of the embassy came hours after American interests in western Iraq and others in neighboring Syria were similarly bombed, in attacks often attributed to armed factions loyal to Iran.

Yesterday, Wednesday, 14 rockets targeted the Ain al-Assad base, which includes American soldiers in Anbar Governorate (western Iraq), and the attack resulted in at least two wounded.

Residents of al-Baghdadi district in Anbar province said that the missiles fired at the base yesterday afternoon caused material losses and seriously wounded a civilian, and the residents called on the security authorities to work to prevent the recurrence of such incidents.

The missile bombardment on the Ain al-Assad base coincided with the announcement by the Syrian Democratic Forces that they had responded to drone attacks in the Al-Omar field area, which constitutes the largest base of the international coalition led by Washington in Syria, in an attack that is the second of its kind within days.

Since the beginning of the year, about 50 attacks have targeted US interests in Iraq, especially the US embassy in Baghdad, Iraqi military bases that include Americans, and the Baghdad and Erbil airports, in attacks often attributed to Iraqi pro-Iranian factions.

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For his part, the Secretary-General of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement in Iraq, Qais al-Khazali, said that the US embassy building in the Green Zone in Baghdad has not yet entered the conflict equation in targeting the American presence in the country.

Khazali indicated that if the movement decided to include the embassy building within this equation, it would not use Katyusha rockets, which are known not to hit their targets, but would bomb them with weapons known for their precise hits.

Iraqi political parties - including the Baghdad government - had concluded an agreement with Iraqi armed factions to avoid targeting the US embassy building in Baghdad.

In turn, the spokesman for the International Coalition in Iraq, Wayne Maroto, said that the attacks carried out by the armed factions in the country against the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq represent an undermining of the authority of Iraqi institutions.

Maroto added in a tweet on Twitter that these attacks contradict the rule of law and Iraqi national sovereignty, and endanger the lives of Iraqis and their partners, whether from the Iraqi federal forces, the Peshmerga forces or the international coalition forces.