Two rockets were fired into Baghdad’s Green Zone housing foreign embassies and Iraqi government buildings late on Wednesday, Al-Baghdadia TV has reported citing Iraqi security agencies, Eurasia Diary reports citing Tass News.
One of the rockets landed near the US embassy, while the other hit a government building under construction, the report said. The attack caused some damage but no casualties have been reported.
Several US helicopters have been scrambled for a patrol mission over the area.
The US launched a strike on Baghdad’s airport on January 3 killing General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force. Iran retaliated on January 8 by launching missile strikes on two military facilities in Iraq used by the United States. According to the Pentagon’s spokesperson, Al-Asad Air Base and the airport of Erbil were targeted.