The embassy is under siege. America is in a hurry! The Marine Corps Airborne Embassy in Iraq will send 4,000 more troops to the Middle East.

　　CCTV News:Last weekend, the US military attacked many facilities of the Shiite armed group "Allah Brigade" on the grounds of "retaliation for the attack on the military base in Iraq", causing dozens of casualties, which led to a further upsurge of anti-American sentiment among Iraqis.

　　On the last day of 2019, the American Embassy in Baghdad’s "Green Zone" was attacked by Iraqi demonstrators. However, at the appeal of the Iraqi Shiite militia "People’s Mobilization Organization" to which the "Allah Brigade" belongs, on the evening of the 1st local time and late at night yesterday (1st Beijing time), the demonstrators evacuated from the building of the US Embassy.

　　The US Department of Defense released a video of the impact of the US Embassy in Iraq

　　The US Department of Defense recently released a picture of the US Embassy in Iraq allegedly taken on the evening of December 31, 2019 local time. As can be seen in the picture, there is a room in the embassy building that is on fire and the fire is raging. Outside the embassy, people threw incendiary bottles and other items into the yard — — From the picture, these molotov cocktails were thrown into the parking lot of the embassy’s outer courtyard. At present, it is not clear about the specific situation of vehicle damage.

　　The American Embassy announced that all consular services were suspended.

　　After the demonstrators evacuated, the US Embassy in Iraq issued a statement on the 1st, announcing that due to the poor security situation, the Embassy would suspend all consular services from now on, and when to resume it will be announced separately.

　　In addition, the statement also suggested that American citizens in Iraq "should not go near the embassy in the near future" to prevent danger.

　　The United States sent troops from Kuwait to reinforce the US Embassy in Iraq.

　　After the American Embassy in Iraq was attacked, on the one hand, the United States urgently dispatched troops to reinforce the security of the embassy, on the other hand, the United States considered sending more troops to the Middle East. It is said that "if necessary, the scale of additional troops may reach 4,000".

　　On December 31, 2019, the United States dispatched as many as 100 Marines from Kuwait to reinforce the US Embassy in Iraq.

　　On the 1st, the U.S. Department of Defense released the video of these marines landing in the embassy in Iraq on the Osprey transport plane that night, and also released the picture of the US Apache helicopter flying over the embassy and dropping flares. The U.S. Department of Defense openly calls it a "power show"; The State Council said that the diplomats in the embassy are safe, and there is no plan to evacuate them at present.

　　In addition to the recent emergency deployment of Marines from Kuwait to reinforce the Iraqi embassy, US Secretary of Defense Esper also announced on December 31, 2019 that the US decided to "immediately deploy the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army ‘ Rapid reaction force ’ A battalion of about 750 people reinforced the Middle East, and "more soldiers are going to be sent in the next few days."

　　On the 1st, it was reported that the officers and men of this battalion had set off from their base in fort bragg, North Carolina. According to a report quoted by Reuters, these 750 people will be stationed in Kuwait first.

　　In addition, according to a report by Fox News, a number of US Department of Defense officials, in view of the recent situation in Iraq, the US intends to urgently send up to 4,000 troops to the Middle East in the next few days.