US-Iran tensions: No injuries in Green Zone rocket fire

Amidthe escalated US-Iran tensions, two rockets crashed into Iraqi capitalBaghdad's Green Zone on late Wednesday. The Green Zone area is a high-securityenclave where foreign embassies including the US mission are based.

Sourcein the Iraqi security services told News agencies that two rockets had fallenin the Green Zone. "Two Katyusha rockets fell in the Green Zone, no people wereinjured," the security services' press service wrote on the Twitter page onlate Wednesday.

It may be mentioned here that the fresh attacks came after US President Donald Trump offered to embrace peace with the Iranian leadership to de-escalate the spiralling tensions in the middle East. Trump on Wednesday said that no Americans were harmed in the attack by Iran on US bases in Iraq.