#BREAKING: Rockets target US embassy, first after month of truce: security source - via @AFP
@AFP #IRAQ: @AFP reporters in #Baghdad heard several loud blasts echoing from the Green Zone, followed by rapid-fire bursts and red flares indicating the US embassy's C-RAM rocket defence system was deployed.
#IRAQ: The blasts came just hours after @SecPompeo - who relayed the threat to close the embassy last month - called @MAKadhimi to discuss bilateral ties.

It also came just as US was announcing troop drawdowns in #Iraq & #Afghanistan to lowest level in years. - via @AFP
#IRAQ: Military says 7 rockets in total launched from area in east #Baghdad.

Four targeted the US embassy, another 3 hit other districts - killing one girl and wounding five civilians. - via @AFP

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