Iraqi officials: 4 rockets target US Embassy in Baghdad

At least four rockets target the US Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, two Iraqi security officials say. The area is home to diplomatic missions and the seat of Iraq’s government.

Three of the missiles struck within the perimeter of the American Embassy, the officials say. Another hit a school located in a nearby residential complex.

An Iraqi military statement says a girl and a woman were injured in the attack, without providing more details. The statement says the rockets were launched from the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad.

Witnesses say they heard the embassy’s C-RAM defense system — supposed to detect and destroy incoming rockets, artillery and mortar shells — during the attack.

The attack is the latest in a series of rocket and drone attacks that have targeted the American presence in Iraq since the start of the year, following the second anniversary of the US strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.