BAGHDAD, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi confirmed on Monday the arrest of several suspects for the latest attack on the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad.
"The attack on the Green Zone on Sunday is a cowardly terrorist act," al-Kadhimi said in a press release after a cabinet extraordinary session held to approve the country's annual budget of 2021.
"We had arrested a group of suspects who attacked the Green Zone with rockets," al-Kadhimi said, asserting that the rockets hit Iraqis and caused damage and injuries, without giving the exact number of the arrested suspects.
"We will not accept any attack on diplomatic missions," al-Kadhimi said, adding that the security officials who are responsible for the security of the area from which the rockets were launched have been arrested.
On Sunday, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said that the Green Zone was attacked with eight rockets, wounding an Iraqi soldier and causing damage to residential buildings.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops across Iraq, as well as the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone, have been frequently targeted by mortar and rocket attacks.
U.S. troops have been deployed in Iraq to support the Iraqi forces in the battles against the Islamic State militants, mainly providing training and advising to the Iraqi forces. Enditem
