2 rockets crashed into Iraqi capital Baghdad’s Green Zone

There have been no injuries in the rocket fire

2 rockets crashed into Iraqi capital Baghdad’s Green Zone, the high-security enclave where foreign embassies including the US mission are based, on late Wednesday, news agencies reported. This comes in the wake of escalated US-Iran tensions, after Iran fired a number of ballistic missiles at US and coalition airbases stationed in Iraq.

There have been no injuries in the
rocket fire that hit the Green Zone where government agencies and foreign
embassies are located, the country’s security services said. On late Wednesday,
a source in the Iraqi security services told Sputnik that two rockets had
fallen in the Green Zone.

“Two Katyusha rockets fell in
the Green Zone, no people were injured,” the security services’ press
service wrote on the Twitter page on late Wednesday.

The fresh attacks come after US
President Donald Trump, offered to embrace peace with the Iranian leadership,
in a significant move to de-escalate spiralling tensions in the middle East. Trump
on Wednesday said that no Americans were harmed in the attack by Iran on US
bases in Iraq.

His remarks came hours after Iran
launched 22 ballistic missiles in a pre-dawn attack on Wednesday targeting at
least two bases where US military and coalition forces are stationed in Iraq,
which Tehran said was a “slap in the face” of America.

“We suffered no casualties.
All of our soldiers are safe and only minimal damage was sustained at our
military bases,” Trump said in his 10-minute address to the nation from
the White House Grand Foyer.