Baghdad: rocket landed inside and around the green zone which was very fortified in the capital of Iraq Baghdad, who accommodated the US Embassy, ​​causing material damage Thursday morning, said Iraqi security forces.
Two Katuysa rockets fell near the national security building, and on the open page in the green zone.
The third rocket fell in the nearest residential area, damaging the civil vehicle, a statement by the Iraqi security media cell.
The attack came shortly before Fajar followed two separate attacks on the base that accommodated US forces in West Iraq and crossed the border in Syria, where US coalition forces were based.
Drone attack Wednesday in East Syria was thwarted while 14 rockets landed at Al-Assad airbase in West Iraq, lightly injuring two personnel.
The attack took place because the tension increased between US forces and the Iranian-supported fighters as Baghdad and Washington negotiated the timeline to withdraw foreign troops from Iraq.
The US has blamed the Iranian-supported militia for attacks, most of them rocket strikes, who have targeted the presence of America in Baghdad and military bases in Iraq.
Recently, attacks became more sophisticated, with militants using drones.
Late last month, US fighter aircraft hit the facilities used by the Iranian-supported militia group which according to the Pentagon supports attacking drones in Iraq.
Four Iraqi fighters were killed on air strikes June 27.
A group that was previously unknown claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Al-Assad Air Base, said it was a message to US forces in Iraq: “We will force you to leave our land defeated.” Drone attack on Tuesday was reported at Irbil Airport in the North Kurdi area which was managed, close to where US-based troops.
In Syria, US-backed troops and Led Kurdish said they were thwarting Wednesday’s attacks using drones in al-Omar oil fields in East Province Deir El-Zour.
Hundreds of US troops were placed in the Northeast Syria, working with Kurdish LED fighters in fighting Islamic groups.
Thousands of Iranian-supported militias from around the Middle East were deployed in various parts of Syria, many of them in the area along the border with Iraq.
Statement from security media cells, affiliated with Iraqi security forces, on Thursday said these attacks endanger the lives of residents and targeted diplomatic missions and will be faced by force.
The Iraqi government has called an attack on Wednesday “a terrorist” who violates Iraqi law.
Also on Thursday, a spokesman for the US LED coalition, Colonel Wayne Marotto, said these attacks damaged “Iraqi Authority Authority, Supremacy of Law and Iraqi National Sovereignty.”