{"id":19976,"date":"2026-03-14T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/missile-strikes-a-helipad-inside-the-u-s-embassy-compound-in-baghdad-iraqi-security-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:22:07","slug":"missile-strikes-a-helipad-inside-the-u-s-embassy-compound-in-baghdad-iraqi-security-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/missile-strikes-a-helipad-inside-the-u-s-embassy-compound-in-baghdad-iraqi-security-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Missile strikes a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraqi security officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-14T00:25:49-04:00\">Mar. 14, 2026, 12:25 AM EDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>BAGHDAD (AP) &mdash; A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, two Iraqi security officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press footage showed a column of smoke rising Saturday morning over the embassy compound.<\/p>\n<p>The sprawling embassy complex, one of the largest U.S. diplomatic facilities in the world, has been repeatedly targeted by rockets and drones fired by Iran-aligned militias.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. On Friday, the embassy renewed its Level 4 security alert for Iraq, warning that Iran and Iran-aligned militia groups have previously carried out attacks against U.S. citizens, interests and infrastructure, and &ldquo;may continue to target them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/missile-strikes-helipad-us-embassy-compound-baghdad\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar. 14, 2026, 12:25 AM EDT BAGHDAD (AP) &mdash; A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, two Iraqi security officials said. Associated Press footage showed a column of smoke rising Saturday morning over the embassy compound. The sprawling embassy complex, one of the largest U.S. diplomatic facilities in the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}