Three US service personnel have been killed and 31 wounded by rocket attacks on the Green Zone and a base elsewhere in Baghdad, the US military has said.
The rocket attack at 1530 (1230 GMT) on the Green Zone, which houses government offices and foreign embassies, killed two personnel and wounded at least 17.
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The attacks came after fighting between US and Iraqi forces and a Shia militia.
Twenty-two people were killed and more than 50 others injured in the clashes in the capital's eastern district of Sadr City, a stronghold of the Mehdi Army.
The militia's leader, radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, has called for a mass demonstration in three days' time against the US military presence.
On Saturday, the Iraqi president, prime minister and other political leaders called for militias to be disbanded.
Analysts said the call was aimed mainly at the Mehdi Army, which has recently been involved in heavy fighting with the security forces across southern Iraq.
(BBC)
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