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Iraqi army aircraft damaged in rocket attack on Camp Taji

The attack is the latest in a long-running series of low-level attacks believed to be carried out by Iran-sponsored militias in Iraq.

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A US soldier walks at the Taji base complex, which hosts Iraqi and US troops and is located 30 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad, on Dec. 29, 2014. — ALI AL-SAADI/AFP via Getty Images

Three Katyusha rockets fell on the Camp Taji military base north of Baghdad on Monday night, damaging an Iraqi army helicopter, the Iraqi military said.

Iraq’s military announced on social media the rockets were launched from Saba’ al-Bour, a neighborhood southeast of the base, and fell on an area of the Camp Taji base used by Iraqi forces.

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