Two rockets were fired in the direction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, with one of them shot down by the U.S. military and the other missing the embassy compound, Fox News has confirmed.

An Iraqi man walks past blood stains at the scene of a twin suicide attack in a street market selling used clothes in central Baghdad, January 21, 2021. Ameer Al Mohammedaw/picture alliance/Getty ...

A number of rockets were reportedly launched at the US embassy in Baghdad on Thursday in the city’s Green Zone that is also home to the country’s national government.

A US aid worker living in Iraq was ambushed and shot dead on his block Monday in a killing rarely seen in the country over the last five years, two police officials said.