US president says response to rioting by pro-Iranian demonstrators at US embassy in Baghdad has been 'handled very well'

Pentagon chief announces deployment of extra troops to guard diplomatic facility that came under attack by pro-Iran protesters

US president tells Iraqis they should use force to secure complex, where angry protesters broke through the outer wall and burned property following US airstrike on local militia

Protest movement distances itself from murder, which threatens its image as nonviolent

No casualties in overnight attack, the 10th since late October and days after another assault wounded six members of Iraq's elite US-trained counterterrorism force in same camp

Iran-backed Iraqi militias are suspected to be behind Friday's assault on demonstrators in capital

Attack comes as anti-government activists occupy parts of Iraqi capital near its seat of government, and a day after a series of suspicious stabbings targeting protesters

Three killed in Najaf as shrine door set ablaze, demonstrations rage in Baghdad and Nasariyah; Abdul-Mahdi's resignation to parliament prompts political intrigue

Iranian diplomatic staff escape unharmed through back door; at least 350 anti-government demonstrators killed so far in protests against rampant corruption

Iraqi security forces gun down anti-government demonstrators near city's Green Zone, bringing death toll in 2 months of fighting to 340, as country's top cleric calls for reforms