{"id":219785,"date":"2021-12-19T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=219785"},"modified":"2021-12-19T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T09:01:44","slug":"two-rockets-were-fired-at-us-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/two-rockets-were-fired-at-us-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Two rockets were fired at US embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two rockets targeted Baghdad&#8217;s ultra-secure Green Zone that houses the US embassy early Sunday, Iraq&#8217;s security forces said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now claimed responsibility for the rocket attack so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Green Zone in Baghdad was the target of two Katyusha rockets. The first was shot down in the air by C-RAM defence batteries, the second fell in a square, damaging two vehicles,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A security people stated that the shot down rocket fell near the US embassy, while the second came down roughly 500 metres away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously, the source told AFP that two rockets had been shot down near the US embassy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two rockets targeted Baghdad&#8217;s ultra-secure Green Zone that houses the US embassy early Sunday, Iraq&#8217;s security forces said in a statement. Now claimed responsibility for the rocket attack so far. &#8220;The Green Zone in Baghdad was the target of two Katyusha rockets. The first was shot down in the air by C-RAM defence batteries, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[107793,107792,29974],"class_list":["post-219785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-katyusha-rockets","tag-rocket-attack","tag-us-embassy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/US-embassy-in-Baghdad.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}