Drone strikes luxury hotel in Baghdad’s Green Zone, home to US embassy

2026-03-16 - 23:45

A drone sparked a fire on Monday at a luxury hotel frequented by foreign diplomats in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone shortly before air defences foiled a rocket attack at the US embassy. The attacks came soon after the powerful Tehran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group announced that its senior security commander Abu Ali al-Askari had been killed, without providing details on the circumstances of his death. Iraq’s interior ministry said initially that “a projectile fell on the roof of the al-Rasheed...