Iraqi security sources announced that the United States Embassy in Baghdad was targeted by a drone attack on the morning of Saturday, March 14. According to witnesses, after several explosions were heard, black smoke was seen rising above the area of the U.S. Embassy located in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a heavily fortified district housing government buildings and foreign diplomatic missions.
The attack occurred several hours after two separate strikes on positions of Kataib Hezbollah, the militia backed by Iran’s regime, in Baghdad. According to security sources, those strikes resulted in the deaths of three members of the group, including one commander.
According to reports by local media outlets, in one of these attacks, which targeted a house in Baghdad, Ahmad al-Hamidawi, a senior leader of Kataib Hezbollah, was wounded. However, these reports have not yet been independently confirmed.
At the same time, Iraqi security sources said that on Saturday evening another drone also targeted the Baghdad International Airport complex, an area that includes a military base and U.S. diplomatic facilities. According to these sources, the drone was intercepted, but its crash caused a large fire outside the airport compound.
