{"id":23117,"date":"2026-03-17T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/23117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:44:11","slug":"drone-and-rocket-attacks-target-us-embassy-as-iraq-is-pulled-into-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/23117\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone and rocket attacks target US embassy as Iraq is pulled into war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A drone and rocket attack targeted the US embassy in Baghdad early Tuesday, while a strike killed four people at a house reportedly hosting Iranian advisers, security officials said, pulling Iraq deeper into the Middle East war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Black smoke was seen rising after an explosion in the embassy complex, as well as air defences intercepting another drone.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The strikes came hours after air defences thwarted a rocket attack at the embassy and a drone sparked a fire at a luxury hotel frequented by foreign diplomats in Baghdad\u2019s fortified Green Zone.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iraq was drawn into the Middle East war after having long been a proxy battleground between the United States and Iran, with strikes targeting Iran-backed groups that have claimed daily attacks on US interests in Iraq and across the region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The luxury al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad\u2019s heavily fortified Green Zone. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/17\/d3e84473-0ce9-4d8a-9fbd-058ae6d2a33e_b3ee84ec.jpg\" title=\"The luxury al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad\u2019s heavily fortified Green Zone. Photo: Reuters\"\/>The luxury al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad\u2019s heavily fortified Green Zone. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meanwhile, a strike on a house in Baghdad killed four people early Tuesday, with initial reports suggesting that two of the dead were \u201cIranian advisors\u201d to Tehran-backed groups, a security source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drone and rocket attack targeted the US embassy in Baghdad early Tuesday, while a strike killed four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11349,6455,1711,10081,5287,34,94,2836,11351,187,2558,11350,95,51,1752],"class_list":{"0":"post-23117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-abu-ali-al-askari","9":"tag-agence-france-presse","10":"tag-baghdad","11":"tag-green-zone","12":"tag-hashed-al-shaabi","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-iraq","15":"tag-kataeb-hezbollah","16":"tag-majnoon-oilfield","17":"tag-middle-east-war","18":"tag-mohammed-shia-al-sudani","19":"tag-sabah-al-numan","20":"tag-syria","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-us-embassy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116243874682771044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}