Rockets fired at US embassy in Baghdad are shot down.

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Rockets fired at US embassy in Baghdad are shot down. Three people including two children were wounded in rocket attacks Thursday on Baghdad's Green Zone with one hitting a school and two smashing into the US embassy grounds Iraqi security sources said. It came as a top court suspended the newly-appointed speaker of parliament amid renewed political tensions in the war-scarred country. "Three rockets were fired towards the Green Zone " a high-ranking Iraqi official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Two of those fell on the grounds of the American embassy and the other on a school nearby injuring a woman a girl and a young boy." In recent months dozens of rocket assaults or drone bomb attacks have targeted American troops and interests in Iraq.

Rockets fired at US embassy in Baghdad are shot down.
Three people including two children were wounded in rocket attacks Thursday on Baghdad's Green Zone, with one hitting a school and two smashing into the US embassy grounds, Iraqi security sources said. It came as a top court suspended the newly-appointed speaker of parliament, amid renewed political tensions in the war-scarred country. "Three rockets were fired towards the Green Zone," a high-ranking Iraqi official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Two of those fell on the grounds of the American embassy, and the other on a school nearby, injuring a woman, a girl and a young boy." In recent months, dozens of rocket assaults or drone bomb attacks have targeted American troops and interests in Iraq.

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