BAGHDAD, June 9 (NNN-NINA) – A rocket, Monday evening, landed on the perimeter of Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi military said.
The rocket was launched from the Arab Khudair area, south of the airport, said the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) in a statement, without giving details about casualties.
The security forces immediately started a search for whoever carried out the attack on the airport area, according to the JOC statement.
It is worth noting that U.S. troops are stationed at a military base, as part of the Baghdad airport.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, as the military bases housing U.S. troops across Iraq have been frequently targeted by mortar and rocket attacks.
The attack came days before a strategic dialogue scheduled for mid-June, between Baghdad and Washington, for a decision on the future of the U.S. forces in Iraq.
Iraqi-U.S. relations witnessed a tension since Jan 3, when a U.S. drone struck a convoy at Baghdad airport, which killed Qassem Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq’s paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces.
The U.S. airstrike prompted the Iraqi parliament, on Jan 5, to pass a resolution requiring the government to end the presence of foreign forces in the country.– NNN-NINA
