On January 26, 2020, the embassy was struck by three rockets. One of the rockets struck a cafeteria. The United States urged Iraq to protect the embassy. Controversy There have been allegations of unethical practices (false promises to foreign employees for jobs in the United Arab Emirates or Kuwait, charging employees large sums to be given the jobs, as well as confiscating passports to not be allowed to leave) and human trafficking by First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting Company, a contractor engaged during the construction of the new U.S. embassy. See also Embassy of Iraq, Washington, D.C. List of ambassadors of the United States to Iraq Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike References External links Information on the US Embassy efforts to rebuild Iraq, with focus on the PRT program US Embassy in Iraq Website "In the chaos of Iraq, one project is on target: a giant US embassy", Daniel McGrory, Times Online, May 3, 2006 "The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad", William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair, November 2007 "U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half", Tim Arango, New York Times, February 2012 Baghdad Iraq–United States relations United States 2009 establishments in Iraq Government buildings completed in 2009