BAGHDAD: Iraqi protesters have stormed and fire to a security post at the entrance to the US embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday.
The US ambassador to Iraq and other staff had earlier been evacuated from the embassy, as thousands of protesters and militia fighters gathered to condemn US air strikes on bases belonging to an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq.
On Sunday, US planes had attacked bases belonging to an Iranian-backed militia, a move that risks drawing Iraq further into a proxy conflict between Washington and Tehran at a time when mass protests are challenging Iraq’s political system.
The attack on the Kataib Hezbollah militia was in response to the killing of a US civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base.
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