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Three rockets hit US embassy in protest-hit Iraqi capital

Iraqis have been protesting since early October against a government deemed corrupt and incompetent. [AFP]

Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands of protesters kept up anti-government sit-ins across the country.

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