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Baghdad airport hit in latest Iraq rocket strike, no injuries

The strike follows a drone attack on a coalition site at Erbil Air Base last week.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images

Baghdad International Airport, which houses personnel of the US-led international military coalition against the Islamic State, was targeted by at least three rockets on Thursday night.

No one was reported injured in the strike, which landed at the edge of the airport near an area housing US military forces, according to an Iraqi military statement.

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