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Fall of two rockets near the Green Zone in Baghdad

3/17/2020, 8:40:39 PM


Two rockets landed on Tuesday near the Baghdad Green Zone, home of the United States embassy, ​​a security official told AFP the second attack of the day in Iraq.

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The two rockets fell in the evening to the residential area of ​​al-Jadriya, which borders the Green Zone, damaging an apartment building and causing three injuries, he said. In the morning, a military base south of the capital housing soldiers of the anti-jihadist coalition led by Washington was hit by several rockets.