{"id":523669,"date":"2026-03-14T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:15:12","slug":"us-embassy-in-baghdad-hit-by-missile-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523669\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy in Baghdad hit by missile \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agence France-Presse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/us-embassy-in-iraq-hit-as-mideast-war-enters-third-week-45cf6b34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> the damage had been caused by a drone strike, not a missile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/ckg1w1jp8kjt?post=asset%3A4c967659-ee30-46ac-b7a1-9dda24c57735#post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Several videos<\/a>, circulated by the AP and the BBC, show pillars of smoke rising from inside the facility. There was no immediate comment from the embassy. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s strike in Baghdad came after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-soldier-killed-several-wounded-iraq-attack-emmanuel-macron-confirms\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-soldier-killed-several-wounded-iraq-attack-emmanuel-macron-confirms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drone attack in northern Iraq<\/a> on Thursday killed a French soldier and wounded several others stationed there as part of an international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-france-role-in-middle-east-remains-purely-defensive-despite-soldiers-death\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-france-role-in-middle-east-remains-purely-defensive-despite-soldiers-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">counterterrorism training exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agence France-Presse reported the damage had been caused by a drone strike, not a missile. Several videos, circulated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,16777,594,14945,10815,68162,3,7270,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-523669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-drones","tag-france","tag-iraq","tag-media","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-security","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}