Rockets Hit Near Baghdad Airport: Iraq Military

June 16, 2020

Defense Post

Three rockets hit near Baghdad airport overnight without causing any damage, Iraq’s security forces said on Tuesday, marking the fourth such attack in just over a week.

A statement from the Iraqi military said the Katyusha-type projectiles were fired from the southwestern edges of Baghdad, where security forces found more rockets set up on wooden platforms.

It follows a string of similar incidents, including a rocket attack on June 13 that hit an Iraqi base north of Baghdad where US-led coalition troops are based. On June 8, two rockets struck the grounds of the Baghdad airport complex, and an unguided rocket hit near the US embassy in Iraq’s high-security Green Zone two days later.

Such attacks are rarely claimed, but Washington has blamed pro-Iran factions in Iraq, primarily Kataib Hezbollah.

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