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Rocket lands near Baghdad airport, no casualty reported

23 June 2020 09:17 (UTC +04:00)

A Katyusha rocket landed near Baghdad International Airport on Monday without causing casualty, the Iraqi military said, APA reports citing Xinhua.

The attack took place in the evening when unknown militants fired the rocket from a village in Abu Ghraib area in western Baghdad, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement.

Baghdad airport and other Iraqi military bases housing the U.S. forces have been frequently targeted by rebels' mortar and rocket attacks.

The attack came more than a week after the U.S. and Iraqi officials held a strategic video dialogue, where the United States pledged to continue cutting down on its forces in Iraq and confirmed that it does not seek permanent military presence in the country.