27 December

A rocket attack by the Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) group kills a US contractor at an Iraqi military base near Kirkuk

Iran

29 December

US retaliatory airstrikes on KH bases near al-Qaim and two other locations in Iraq

Iraq

31 December

Protesters attack the US embassy in Baghdad

Saudi

Arabia

150 km

150 miles

29 December

US retaliatory airstrikes on KH bases near al-Qaim and two other locations in Iraq

27 December

A rocket attack by the Iran-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) group kills a US contractor at an Iraqi military base near Kirkuk

Tehran

Syria

Iraq

Iran

31 December

Protesters attack the US embassy in Baghdad

Basra

Saudi

Arabia

Kuwait

150 km

150 miles