The US embassy’s logistical support center at Baghdad International Airport came under attack late Tuesday. “The shelling, the nature of which has not yet been determined, whether by missiles or mortar shells, took place near the US embassy’s logistical support headquarters at Baghdad airport,” an Iraqi security source told Sputnik. He added, “There is no information about human losses so far.” “The strike, which may have involved rockets or mortars, also impacted areas near the headquarters of the Anti-Terrorism Agency,” a security source told Shafaq news agency on Wednesday.  Tuesday’s attack on the logistical center at Baghdad airport came hours before Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Iraq. Later on Wednesday Pezeshkian met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid.  A spokesperson for the Kataib Hezbollah resistance faction, Jaafar al-Husseini, described the attack’s timing as “suspicious.” “Those behind the attack on Baghdad airport at this particular time have suspicious motives. The aim is to disrupt the visit of the Iranian president to Baghdad,” Husseini said, calling on Iraqi security forces to “expose those responsible.” Iraqi resistance factions banded together after the start of the war in Gaza in October, forming a coalition dubbed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI). These groups started carrying out drone and […]