Middle East|Iraq Protesters Break Into US Embassy Compound in Baghdad
Demonstrators marched on the compound, breached the outer wall and lit fires. Tensions are high after American airstrikes killed 27 members of an Iraqi militia backed by Iran.
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BAGHDAD – Protesters broke into the heavily guarded compound of the United States Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday and lit fires inside to express their anger overAmerican airstrikesthat killed 24 members of an Iranian-backed militia over the weekend.
Chanting “Death to America!” thousands of protesters and militia members demonstrated outside the embassy compound, throwing rocks, covering the walls with graffiti and demanding that the United States withdraw its forces from Iraq.
The American airstrikes on Sunday targeted an Iranian-ba cked Iraqi militia, Kataib Hezbollah, which the United States accused of carrying out a
But the size of the American response – five strikes in Iraq and Syria that killed two dozen fighters and wounded dozens of others – has created a new political crisis for the united states in iraq and given iran a boost in its competition for influence in the country.
Falih Hassan reported from Baghdad, and Ben Hubbard from Beirut, Lebanon.
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