Moments ago, Iraqi security media center announced that a convoy of the International Coalition forces was targeted by a missile in Al-Diwaniyah Governorate.
Earlier this morning, the Iraqi parliament warned of the danger of targeting foreign diplomatic missions on its soil, noting that this would weaken the Iraqi state.
Concerns grew over the so-called "Katyusha cells" which are targeting the headquarters of diplomatic missions or the foreign army bases that include US forces with "unknown" Katyusha missiles”.
Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Iraqi parliament said: "The House of Representatives calls on the government to take a firm stance towards protecting embassies and diplomatic bodies." It warned that the withdrawal of the US embassy may be followed by other embassies, which would cause economic and security losses.
Rocket attacks increased during the past few weeks near the US embassy, and a roadside bomb hit a British motorcade in Baghdad, in the first such attack on Western diplomats in Iraq in years.
Earlier yesterday, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi stressed that the authorities would not be complacent in providing security for diplomatic missions.
His remarks came as he was receiving ambassadors of 25 foreign countries.
After Al-Kadhimi's pledges, the Iraqi Kurdistan Region's Counter-Terrorism Service announced that armed groups loyal to Iran carried out a missile attack targeting a US base of the international coalition in the city of Erbil.
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