{"id":20782,"date":"2020-11-18T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T09:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=20782"},"modified":"2020-11-18T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T09:48:38","slug":"rockets-target-us-embassy-in-baghdad-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/rockets-target-us-embassy-in-baghdad-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Target US Embassy in Baghdad &#8211; Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four rockets hit the ground in Baghdad&#8217;s high-security Green Zone, the Iraqi Security Media Cell reported late on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report on the strike, which left at least two people wounded, came as multiple agencies reported a rocket attack at the US embassy in Iraq&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Agence France Presse [AFP] cited sources on the ground as reporting several large blasts heard in the area, followed by rapid-fire sounds and red flares lighting up the sky. The latter indicated that the embassy&#8217;s C-RAM rocket system was deployed.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press, meanwhile, cited Iraqi sources as saying that two Katyusha rockets hit the ground in the vicinity of the US diplomatic compound.<\/p>\n<p>The operation came just minutes after the Pentagon confirmed that the US would be reducing its presence in Iraq, pulling out some 500 occupation troops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/Fava5Ifru8330dDMfhs0gn\">https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/Fava5Ifru8330dDMfhs0gn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/wilayahh\">t.me\/wilayahh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four rockets hit the ground in Baghdad&#8217;s high-security Green Zone, the Iraqi Security Media Cell reported late on Tuesday. The report on the strike, which left at least two people wounded, came as multiple agencies reported a rocket attack at the US embassy in Iraq&#8217;s capital. Agence France Presse [AFP] cited sources on the ground &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1478,1483,1482,1480,1481],"class_list":["post-20782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","tag-islam_is_our_symbol","tag-no_to_trump_deal","tag-purposeful_lectures","tag-stay_at_home_to_be_safe","tag-the_zionist_mice-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20784,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20782\/revisions\/20784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}