Thousands of mourners try to storm US embassy in Baghdad

Thousands of Iraqi mourners have been trying to storm the US Embassy in Baghdad this morning following deadly US airstrikes this week.

Thousands of Iraqi mourners have been trying to storm the US Embassy in Baghdad this morning following deadly US airstrikes this week.

The Popular Mobilization Forces have confirmed that the US strikes killed at least 25 of Kataeb Hezbollah's members.

The mourners held funerals for the killed in a Baghdad neighborhood, after which they marched on to the heavily fortified Green Zone and kept walking till they reached the sprawling U.S. Embassy there.

The crowd tried to storm the embassy and burned US flags outside the premises.