BAGHDAD — Suspected militants shelled Baghdad’s protected Green Zone on Saturday in the first such bombardment in more than three months.
Violence across Iraq remains down compared with past years, but attacks and bloodshed have edged up in recent weeks and brought worries that it could slow the return of nightlife and commerce to parts of Baghdad.
The U.S military said the Green Zone was hit by two “indirect fire” rounds, which typically means either rockets or mortars, but there were no casualties or damage reported.
A police official says the rounds were fired from predominantly Shiite eastern Baghdad.
West of Baghdad, Iraqi forces launched raids into an industrial zone in Fallujah where authorities fear Sunni insurgents could be seeking to regain footholds in areas they once controlled.
But the offensive into the district of factories and workshops found no clear evidence that al-Qaeda in Iraq or its allies had re-established a major presence in Fallujah, said the city’s police chief, Col. Mahmoud al-Issawi. The Associated Press
