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Baghdad: Iraqi military said on Thursday (April 22), three Katyusha rockets were fired into Baghdad International Airport area without any accidents.
The attack occurred around midnight when three rockets landed on the southwest side of the airport BaghdadThe media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement. One of the three rockets landed on an empty area near the Abu Ghraib prison and another near the Anti-Terrorism Academy, while the third one landed near the Iraqi military base, according to the statement.
The statement said security forces also landed a rocket launcher left on the roof of an abandoned house in the Al-Jihad neighborhood near the airport, and said the statement defused five unfired rockets in the launcher.
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2 rockets hit air base in Iraq s Salahudin province
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Baghdad, April 5 : Two rockets on Sunday landed near an Iraqi military air base in Salahudin province north of capital Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
A statement by the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said that the rockets landed at 12:15 p.m. local time (0915 GMT) at the edge of Balad air base, some 90 km north of Baghdad, without causing casualties, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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