{"id":50931,"date":"2019-11-18T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50931"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T01:38:57","slug":"civilian-injured-in-rocket-attack-on-green-zone-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50931","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Injured In Rocket Attack On Green Zone In Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Two rockets on Sunday, hit the heavily guarded Green Zone in central Baghdad, wounding a civilian, an Iraqi interior ministry source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack occurred in the evening, when one of the rockets landed on a building, housing a telecommunications company in al-Karrada district, on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, opposite the Green Zone, which houses embassies and some of the main Iraqi government offices, the source said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blast wounded an engineer working in the company, and caused damage to the building, the source added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other rocket landed inside the perimeter of the Green Zone, causing no casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a media office, affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, also said that, an unidentified rocket landed on a company building, in the Karrada district in Baghdad, injuring a civilian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media office gave no further details, but said, more information will be published later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack came, amid demonstration at the Tahrir Square and nearby al-Khalani Square, where thousands of demonstrators are continuing demanding comprehensive reform, fight against corrupt officials, improvement of public services and job opportunities.&#8211; NNN-NINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Two rockets on Sunday, hit the heavily guarded Green Zone in central Baghdad, wounding a civilian, an Iraqi interior ministry source said. The attack occurred in the evening, when one of the rockets landed on a building, housing a telecommunications company in al-Karrada district, on the eastern bank of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}