Iraq Protesters Break Into U.S. Embassy In Bagdad

“Protesters broke into the heavily guarded compound of the United States Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday and lit fires inside to express their anger over American airstrikes that killed 24 members of an Iranian-backed militia over the weekend,” the New York Times reports.

“The men did not enter the main embassy buildings and later withdrew from the compound, joining thousands of protesters and militia fighters outside who chanted ‘Death to America,’ threw rocks, covered the walls with graffiti and demanded that the United States withdraw its forces from Iraq.”