The Americans shot down a drone bomb targeting their embassy in Baghdad on Monday evening, security sources said, hours after another rocket attack on a base housing American soldiers in western Iraq.
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On the night of Monday to Tuesday, US C-RAM defense systems kicked in, firing salvos, AFP journalists noted, Iraqi security sources claiming they had intercepted the flying device, a new attack technique favored by Iranian backers in the Middle East.
