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| Blasts rock Baghdad’s Green Zone, reports say missiles struck in vicinity of US embassy | Blasts rock Baghdad’s Green Zone, reports say missiles struck in vicinity of US embassy |
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| Explosions have been reported in the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, hosting the US embassy and other foreign diplomatic and military installations. Rockets reportedly fell near the US compound. | Explosions have been reported in the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, hosting the US embassy and other foreign diplomatic and military installations. Rockets reportedly fell near the US compound. |
| Several rockets were reportedly launched towards the US embassy in Baghdad on Sunday evening, local media reported. | Several rockets were reportedly launched towards the US embassy in Baghdad on Sunday evening, local media reported. |
| Videos have emerged online showing the moment missile alert sirens sounded off in the city. | Videos have emerged online showing the moment missile alert sirens sounded off in the city. |
| It was not immediately clear how many missiles struck in the proximity of the US diplomatic quarters, that has repeatedly come under rocket fire in the recent months, with conflicting reports on social media suggesting at least 2 projectiles might have hit the compound. | |
| Security sources, cited by Reuters, reported that two missiles landed inside the Green Zone, including one that hit the ground near the embassy itself. No one has been hurt in the attack, they said. | |
| The reports of the attack came less than an hour after Iraqi PM-designate Mohammed Allawi announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy from the race after his yet another attempt to form a governemnt on Sunday faltered due to the lack of quorum in the parliament. | |
| Allawi was hoping to break a months-long deadlock, that saw Iraq being engulfed by a wave of mass protests that erupted in October and brought down the cabinet of former PM Adel Abdul Mahdi two months later. | |
| Announcing his decision to withdraw, Allawi blamed political parties who he accused of “placing obstacles” in the way of him forming an independent government for his failure to solve the political crisis. | |
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