Anonymous ID: 841bac Dec. 31, 2019, 2:50 a.m. No.7671807   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Hundreds of Iraqi Shia militia supporters have broken into the US embassy in Baghdad, storming the compound with gunshots and sirens ringing out, after US air strikes on Hezbollah that killed 25.

 

The US ambassador and other staff have been evacuated with US soldiers remaining at the compound where thousands of violent demonstrators, some wearing militia uniforms, thronged outside the main gate on Tuesday.

 

Flames were seen rising from the compound, as furious rioters pressed up against the windows, taunting the US soldiers within and spraying pro-Hezbollah graffiti over the glass.

 

Thousands of mourners had held funerals for the fighters of the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah earlier before rushing through the heavily fortified Green Zone, burning US flags as they headed towards the consulate in the Iraqi capital.

Footage showed a rapidly deteriorating scene as protesters set fire to barricades surrounding the consulate compound and hurling rocks.

 

It comes after US fighter jets decimated three locations in Iraq on Sunday night, in retaliation for last week's killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack in the region.

 

 

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