Baghdad International Airport came under dawn today with the bombing of three missiles, followed by a massive flight by the American warplanes to monitor the location of the rocket fire and to monitor any movement by armed groups. The bombing did not result in any losses, and no party has claimed responsibility for it.
For its part, the government security media cell said that the three Katyusha rockets landed in the vicinity of Baghdad airport, early in the morning, and that the security forces found the launch pad with the timer in the Bakriya area, west of Baghdad.
It is noteworthy that the Baghdad International Airport has been out of operation for about a month and a half in the framework of measures to reduce the outbreak of the Corona pandemic (Covid-19).
According to what the Iraqi security authorities announced in a statement, targeting the area around the airport is considered the first since the raid by the Americans with a drone plane on January 3, in which the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, were killed.
A security source in the Iraqi police told the French press that the attack took place at about 4 am Baghdad time and "targeted the headquarters of the anti-terrorist forces where there are American forces."
And Iraq has been witnessing for about a month, a decrease in tension on its lands between its American and Iranian allies, with the stopping of missile attacks and "retaliatory raids."
However, experts warned that the aim of this calm would be to re-align the two camps in preparation for a new round of confrontations.
And the US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) began last March to develop a comprehensive plan aimed at carrying out strikes against more than one hundred locations simultaneously against Iraqi armed factions accusing it of loyalty to Iran, especially the Hezbollah Brigades, the faction Washington accuses of launching attacks against its forces and coalition forces. United States-led international.
The Iraqi parliament had voted after the assassination of Soleimani and the engineer to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq, including more than five thousand American soldiers deployed in several Iraqi regions.
During the past two months, more than 2,500 American soldiers and other nationalities have left Iraq, many of them attributed the reason for leaving to curbing the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
The American forces withdrew from most of the military bases in Iraq, and the American presence was concentrated in two bases, Ain al-Assad in Anbar (west) and a silk base in the Kurdistan region, and these bases are now protected by the Patriot air defense missile system that Washington recently deployed.