At least three rockets hit close Baghdad airport terminal Thursday, the Iraqi army.

A total of eight missiles were also fired and three landed close to the airport complex, ” the announcement said. It didn’t detail if the strike caused casualties.

Even the rockets struck are as known to comprise Iraqi security forces. 1 hit alongside a prison, that the next near a academy of this elite counter terrorism Service, and also a third near the headquarters of this Rapid Response regiment.

Nobody claimed responsibility for those strikes. U.S. officials have blamed Iran-backed militia classes.

It’s the most recent in a series of rocket strikes which have largely concentrated American installments Iraq lately. On Sunday, multiple rockets struck on an Iraqi air base just north of Baghdad, wounding two Iraqi security employees.

Last montha base in western Iraq home U.S.-led coalition troops and builders had been struck by 10 rockets. 1 builder was murdered.

Calls from mainly Shiite leaders also have risen to oust U.S. troops out of Iraq after having a U.S.-directed drone strike murdered Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani along with also an undercover militia pioneer in Baghdad at January 20 20.

Strategic discussions involving the U.S. and Iraq have dedicated to the potential for U.S. troop presence within the nation.