Rockets fired at US embassy in Baghdad

Security forces in Bagdad opened fire on protesters who crossed a bridge over the Tigris river into a high-security area. The protests show no sign of stopping.

Violence has flared in the Gaza Strip after Israel assassinated an Islamic Jihad leader in an airstrike. Palestinian fighters have launched missiles in response.

Iraqis continue to protest against the government in Baghdad's Tahrir Square as volunteers wash protesters' clothes and repaint sidewalks. Iraq's capital and Shiite-majority south have been gripped Since October 1, by rallies against corruption, poor public services, a lack of jobs and Iran's perceived political interference.

Close to Baghdad's protest hotspot of Tahrir Square, a sandy Tigris River bank offers relief from the revolution as youths play football and smoke waterpipes to booming hiphop music. It is on this half-kilometre stretch where the post-Saddam generation celebrates its uprising on the beach, escaping the teargas and bullets for a more festive, Club Med-style atmosphere.

The US ambassador to Iraq has been evacuated from the US embassy in Baghdad after pro-government protesters gathered outside to condemn American air stikes. The embassy is inside the high-security Green zone.

US President Donald Trump responds while attending a New Year's eve party at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after pro-Iran demonstrators stormed the US embassy compound in Baghdad.

Rockets reportedly targeted the highly fortified Green Zone in Baghdad as well as an air base housing US troops. The explosions come on the heels of a US airstrike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

Residents of Baghdad rush to have snowball fights and take photographs as the Iraqi capital woke carpeted in white by only its second snowfall in a century.

Iraqi protesters clash with riot police following an anti-government demonstration in the capital Baghdad's Al-Khilani Square.

Iraqis rally on Baghdad's iconic al-Jumhuriya Bridge on the first anniversary of a revolt against a political system failing to deliver basic services and against the growing influence of pro-Iran militias.

Two cities in the Amhara region have been struck by rockets fired by forces from the neighboring Tigray region, the government has claimed. Hundreds of people have been killed so far this month in a spiraling conflict.

The US embassy has intercepted at least three rockets fired into the Green Zone as the anniversary of the assassination of Iran's top general approaches.