The Iraqi army said, in a statement, that a missile attack on Thursday targeted the US embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, wounding a woman and two children.
The statement did not give details of the attack, but said that a missile had fallen on a school. The statement did not clarify whether this was the missile that wounded the woman and the two children.
Separately, military officials told Reuters that the attack included two to three Katyusha rockets being fired at the embassy and that the embassy's missile defense system shot down at least two of them.
An Iraqi security source said that "3 missiles were fired towards the Green Zone, two of which landed in the US embassy compound" in the capital on Thursday evening, and the third "on a school near the embassy, injuring a woman, a girl and a child."
For its part, the US Embassy in Iraq condemned the attack on its Facebook page, which it attributed to "terrorist groups seeking to undermine Iraq's security, sovereignty and international relations."
A series of attacks this month targeted bases or facilities housing US military personnel and members of the diplomatic mission, but did not cause American casualties.
A few days ago, 5 missiles targeted the Iraqi military base of Ain al-Assad in the west of the country, which includes advisory forces for the international coalition, but did not result in damage or injuries. At the beginning of the year, Ain al-Assad was attacked with two booby-trapped drones, and an American diplomatic compound at Baghdad airport was attacked by two drones.