The statement added there was minor property damage, including a damaged vehicle.

The incident in Iraq’s capital is the third within a week.

The US Embassy was also a frequent target of rocket attacks during the Trump administration.

However, the number of attacks fell in the weeks before President Joe Biden took office but they have recently restarted. 

A US-led coalition contractor was killed and other civilians were wounded in a rocket attack outside Irbil international airport last Tuesday.

On Saturday, rockets wounded personnel working for a US defence company at Balad airbase in Salahaddin province.

At the same time today, a young man was shot dead during a protest in the capital of Iraq’s southern Dhi Qar province over poor public services.

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Decades of war, government graft and slim investments have left Iraq’s water, electricity and other public works thoroughly lacking high sanitary standards. 

Many households have only a few hours of state-provided electricity per day or complain of polluted tap water, and the resulting anger has erupted into protests in the past.

In late 2019, public frustration over poor services, unemployment and corruption morphed into an unprecedented anti-government movement across southern Iraq as well as the capital Baghdad.

Nearly 600 people have been killed in protest-related violence since then, including in mass violence at demonstrations but also in targeted assassinations of activists.