{"id":88137,"date":"2026-04-28T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/88137\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:01:09","slug":"iraq-air-defences-fire-at-drone-over-baghdads-green-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/88137\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq air defences fire at drone over Baghdad’s Green zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n An Iraqi army vehicle is deployed near the banks of the Tigris River to protect the US Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone [Getty]<\/p>\n

Iraq’s air defence systems on Tuesday fired at a drone flying over Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone where the US embassy is located, a military source told AFP.<\/p>\n

It was the first such incident in the Iraqi capital since a fragile ceasefire in the US-Israeli war against Iran<\/a> took effect on April 8.<\/p>\n

Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq<\/a> have targeted US interests since the beginning of the war, including the embassy in Baghdad and other US-linked facilities.<\/p>\n

The US has also struck their positions and bases, killing dozens of fighters.<\/p>\n

“At 1915 (1615 GMT), the air defence of Camp Honor (the defence ministry) detected an unidentified drone over the Green Zone,” the military source said.<\/p>\n

“The air defence systems were activated towards the target,” he said, adding that the drone was not shot down.<\/p>\n

Shrapnel from the attempt to shoot down the drone injured one person, said the source, which did not identify the type of drone used to fly over the sensitive area.<\/p>\n

The zone houses the US embassy and other diplomatic missions, as well as international institutions and government offices. High-ranking officials and politicians also live there.<\/p>\n

Earlier, AFP journalists heard what sounded like gunfire and small explosions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Iraqi army vehicle is deployed near the banks of the Tigris River to protect the US Embassy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1711,10081,94,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-88137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-baghdad","9":"tag-green-zone","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116484117954868974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88137","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=88137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}