{"id":7097,"date":"2023-12-08T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:29:01","slug":"iraqs-green-zone-targeted-with-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/iraqs-green-zone-targeted-with-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s Green Zone Targeted with Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baghdad&#8217;s heavily fortified Green Zone housing the U.S. Embassy was targeted with several rockets around dawn on Friday.<br \/>\nIt was not immediately clear whether the embassy&#8217;s air defence systems were activated.<br \/>\nU.S. forces at military bases in Iraq and Syria have faced more than 70 attacks since mid-October claimed by an umbrella organisation of Iraqi Shi&#8217;ite Muslim armed groups, though diplomatic missions have been spared.<br \/>\nThe US embassy in Baghdad urged Iraq&#8217;s government to protect its personnel, after rockets targeted the diplomatic mission in the city&#8217;s high-security Green Zone on Friday.<br \/>\n&#8220;We again call on the government of Iraq&#8230; to protect diplomatic and coalition partner personnel and facilities,&#8221; an embassy spokesperson said in a statement, after &#8220;two salvos of rockets&#8221; were fired at the mission without causing any reported casualties.<br \/>\nNo group immediately claimed responsibility for any attack on the U.S. embassy on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Baghdad&#8217;s heavily fortified Green Zone housing the U.S. Embassy was targeted with several rockets around dawn on Friday. It was not immediately clear whether the embassy&#8217;s air defence systems were activated. U.S. forces at military bases in Iraq and Syria have faced more than 70 attacks since mid-October claimed by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7099,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/7099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}