Fresh Attacks In Iraq

The Headquarters of the U.S. Forces in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad has come under another mortar attack by Iraqi fighters late Saturday night, according to police sources said.

The sources added that the so-called "Green Zone," where the former Presidential Palace, Conference Palace and Al-Rashid Hotel on the western bank of river Tigris that divides Baghdad into two sides, received at least one mortar shell, but reported no casualties or material damage.

But a U.S. military spokesman said that a round was fired toward the closed off U.S.-led coalition’s fortress-like Baghdad compound Saturday night, but the shell fell short.

A series of loud explosions was heard in the Iraqi capital late Saturday.

At least three blasts were heard in quick succession at around 8:30 pm (1730 GMT) after smaller blasts were heard earlier in the day.

The "Green Zone" had come under at least 3 mortar and Katusha rocket attacks launched by the Iraqi resistance forces over the past few weeks, causing damage to some of its premises and killing and wounding a number of U.S. soldiers and Iraqis working in the Zone.