BAGHDAD - Four Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone and security officials said the attack targeted the US embassy, Iraqi police and security sources said on Tuesday .
The military said earlier four rockets were fired from an eastern district of the capital, but did not provide more details. Two diplomatic sources based inside the Green Zone said they heard an anti-rocket system set up to defend the US embassy.US officials blame Iran-backed militia for regular rocket attacks on U.S. facilities in Iraq, including near the embassy in Baghdad. No known Iran-backed groups have claimed responsibility.
A spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah, one of the most powerful Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, said the groups were presenting no set deadline, but that if US troops"insisted on staying," they would unleash much more violent attacks.
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