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Iraq: three rockets hit Baghdad airport, home to US base

2021-04-23T09:30:25.171Z


The airport was hit three times during the night of Thursday to Friday in the Iraqi capital, hitting a space occupied by the


Three rockets fell overnight from Thursday to Friday on Baghdad airport, which houses a base where American soldiers are stationed, security sources say.

The projectiles hit the section of the air base occupied by troup

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s Iraqi - who share space with soldiers deployed by Washington as part of the coalition antijihadistes - the precise one of these sources.

At the time of writing, information on these strikes was only patchy.

According to security forces quoted by the Reuters agency, no damage and no casualties would be deplored.

Likewise, these strikes have not yet been the subject of any claim.

Frequent attacks

Attacks against American bases are recurrent in Iraq.

On March 3, at least ten rockets hit a base housing American soldiers in western Iraq.

They had killed a civilian subcontractor.

This attack came two days before Pope Francis' historic visit to the country.

On February 15, a coalition air base located at Erbil airport was targeted. Among the fourteen rockets fired, four had reached the air base where American troops are stationed, next to the civilian airport. A man, a civilian contractor, had been killed. Two more rockets fell on residential areas on the outskirts of town, 2 km from the airport.

Source: leparis

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