The US embassy in Baghdad came under mortar fire on Friday as US assets in Iraq and Syria continue to be targeted over US support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
According to Reuters, seven mortar rounds landed in the sprawling embassy. US officials said there was minor damage but no casualties. The incident was the first time the embassy, located in Baghdad’s Green Zone, came under attack since October 7.
On the same day, there were at least five other attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria. Three targeted US forces in Syria, and two hit the Ain al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq. An umbrella group of Iraqi Shia militias, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq, claimed a total of 11 attacks on US forces on Friday, but not all of them were confirmed.
There have been more than 80 attacks on US forces in the two countries since they started on October 17, and the US has launched several rounds of airstrikes against Shia militias.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani about the attack on the US embassy and the general tensions in the region. Austin singled out two Iran-aligned Shia militias that he said were responsible for most of the attacks, Kataib Hezbollah and Harakat al-Nujaba.
Al-Sudani had previously criticized the US for launching airstrikes in Iraq without government approval. According to a statement from his office, in the call with Austin, al-Sudani “emphasized the security services’ capability to pursue and expose those involved in attacks, cautioning against a direct response without government approval.”
Kataib Hezbollah said on Saturday that US troops in Iraq would continue to be targeted until they leave the country. “Our jihadist operations against the American occupation will continue until the last of its soldiers are removed from the land of Iraq,” a spokesman for the group said, according to Rudaw.
Perhaps the US should pack its bags and come home?…
Yes. Bring our people home. There is plenty to do here — We need to put money wasted on death to better use.
Same question to you.
Should Russia pack its bags and come home?
Oh no, i guess it is different when Putin is involved.
Dont call us your people. You are not American. Phony.
Russia is home. The Donbas and Crimea were part of Russia for centuries, and voted to rejoin Russia after the American coup in Kiev. Russia is the primary language in both areas and the majority are ethnic Russian. Why do people object to this democracy, but not overt American aggression and CIA inspired ethnic cleansing that caused this conflict? Here is a short video for those misinformed by CNN and John Kirby.
“Here is a short video. . .”
Where?
It disappeared? I’ll try again here:
Should Russia pack its bags and come home?
You are such a dishonest hypocrite.
EXCELLENT IDEA, DONNA!!
Perhaps the PM should have told the SecDef to pack up the toys and go home?
And take the quisling Al-Sudani with you when you do.
The Iraqi parliament did that three years ago and nothing happened. This was bold since all Iraqi oil revenue is paid to the New York Fed Bank and “managed” by the US government, which pays government and military salaries in Iraq. The US Army still has thousands of occupation soldiers in Iraq to enforce its colonial status.
They need to throw them out … no excuses accepted.
How, when we don’t want to go?
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin singled out two Iran-aligned Shia militias that he said were responsible for most of the attacks, Kataib Hezbollah and Harakat al-Nujaba.
of course they were. remember when Iran was responsible for the Vietnam war & 9/11 & every US school-shooting since the invention of school-shootings?
uncle sam could easily garner approval from the American people for the destruction of Iran if they merely enlisted one of those phony cowboy song-writer guys to promote it.
yeah Toby Keith, i am referring to y’alls.
what
My generation had way better reactionary warmongering musical assholes than Toby Keith.
One night at the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Da Nang, the movie, “Green Berets”,starring John Wayne, was shown. The reaction was not good. Actually, it went over like a fart in a space suit.