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In autumn 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly threatened to close the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if Iraqi leaders did not prevent further attacks on the embassy. [47] According to some media sources, Pompeo informed Baghdad that it would target 120 sites in Iraq linked to Iran-backed militias if rocket attacks cost American lives.
Several bombs were detonated in Caracas, including one in the United States embassy. [18] November 28 Yugoslavia West Germany: Bonn: 1 1 Attack by Croatian Crusader Brotherhood. [19] 1963 September 16 United Kingdom Indonesia: Jakarta: 0 0 Mob attack burnt the embassy and smashed all its windows. [20] 1964 March 5 and 8 United States Gabon ...
The April 18, 1983, United States Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one U.S. Marine Security Guard .
Jossie Schumake, a US embassy representative in Mexico City, speaks to the press September 11, 2001 during a evacuation of the US embassy in Mexico City after attacks on New York City and ...
The United States Department of State designated Ansar al-Sharia as a terrorist organization in January 2014. [24] [25] [26] Khattala was captured in Libya by United States Army Special Operations Forces, who were acting in coordination with the FBI, in June 2014. [27] Another suspect, Mustafa al-Imam, was captured in October 2017. [28] [29]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq has identified links between several of the perpetrators of a Dec. 7 multiple rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and some of the country's security services, a ...
The embassy was previously targeted in an attack on 18 March, though the mortar shells fired at the embassy missed it and instead hit a girls school nearby, injuring 13 children. [1] The attack, as well as another targeting a residential compound housing Americans workers in April were attributed to the Soldier's Brigade of Yemen, an offshoot ...
1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut; 1984 US embassy bombing in Beirut; 1998 United States embassy bombings; 2004 Tashkent suicide bombings; 5 April 2010 North-West Frontier Province attacks; 2011 United States embassy attack in Sarajevo; 2023 Jeddah shooting; 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting