{"id":44014,"date":"2026-03-14T12:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44014"},"modified":"2026-03-14T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:54:51","slug":"us-embassy-in-iraqs-baghdad-hit-in-missiles-attack-security-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-embassy-in-iraqs-baghdad-hit-in-missiles-attack-security-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy in Iraq&#8217;s Baghdad hit in missiles attack, security sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>DUBAI(AP)\u00a0 :\u00a0International media have reported that the United States Embassy in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, has been targeted in a missile attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported on Saturday, March 14, citing two Iraqi officials, that a missile struck inside the compound of the US Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Images also show a column of smoke and dust rising above the embassy compound.<\/p>\n<p>The report states: \u201cThe sprawling embassy complex, one of the largest US diplomatic facilities in the world, has been repeatedly targeted by rockets and drones fired by Iran-aligned militias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the US Embassy in Baghdad.\u00a0This comes two days after an American aircraft was shot down in Iraq by the Islamic Resistance, a group backed by Iran, resulting in the deaths of six crew members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI(AP)\u00a0 :\u00a0International media have reported that the United States Embassy in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, has been targeted in a missile attack. The Associated Press reported on Saturday, March 14, citing two Iraqi officials, that a missile struck inside the compound of the US Embassy. Images also show a column of smoke and dust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44018,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44014\/revisions\/44018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}