As security measures are buffed inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, Iraqi counter-terrorism forces have been posted in front of the U.S. embassy, Thursday, January 2, a day after pro-Iran demonstrators dispersed from the area.
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READ MORE: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine, the country at the heart of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, after an attack on the American embassy in Iraq, the State Department announced.
Pompeo had been due to travel at week's end to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus.
But on Tuesday, a mob of pro-Iran demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad over American airstrikes that killed two dozen paramilitary fighters.
No U.S. personnel were injured in the attack and U.S. officials said they had no plans to evacuate.
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1 янв 2020