US embassy in Baghdad attacked as US-Israel war on Iran escalates

Iraq did not want to be dragged into war, but Iran and its aligned paramilitary forces are attacking US hubs there.

The United States Embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has been attacked with rockets as regional tensions spike amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered his country’s security forces to pursue the perpetrators of the “terrorist act of launching projectiles toward the US embassy”, according to his office, though the statement did not indicate who was responsible for the attack.

“The perpetrators of these attacks are committing an offence against Iraq, its sovereignty, and its security. These rogue groups that operate outside the framework of the law in no way represent the will of the Iraqi people,” al-Sudani’s office said in a post on Facebook.

An unnamed security official cited by the AFP news agency said four rockets were launched towards the US Embassy, located in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which hosts government offices and diplomatic missions.

The attack was the first to land in the Green Zone since Israel and the US began striking Iran last Saturday, leading to war in the Middle East.