Jan. 4 (UPI) — At least one missile landed near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Saturday, Iraqi military sources said.
No casualties have been reported in the strikes, which hit after thousands gathered for a funeral procession to mourn slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Saturday night.
Multiple sources reported on the strike, but the number of missiles that have landed was not confirmed and reports varied on the precise location of the strike.
An Iraqi military official told CNN an unknown number of rockets landed in the heavily fortified Green Zone as well as the Balad air base housing U.S. troops.
The U.S. Embassy is situated inside the Green Zone but was not hit, the New York Daily News reported.
Soleimani was killed Thursday in what U.S. President Donald Trump and the Department of Defense characterized as a defensive measure to prevent “imminent and sinister attacks” on the United States.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said the U.S. “has started a military war by an act of terror” with the killing of Soleimani.
NATO has temporarily suspended its training mission in Iraq, a spokesperson for the alliance said Saturday.
The alliance had been advising Iraqi defense forces on how to keep the Islamic State, also known as ISIS ISIL and Daesh, from regaining ground in the region.
NATO spokesperson Dylan White cited the “safety of our personnel” in a statement reported by Politico but did not explicitly say why it had decided to suspend the mission.
