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February 15, 2021 - Three rockets were fired at the Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan. A rocket hit a military facility housing foreign troops from the American-led coalition. The others took residential areas near the airport. For two months, no US military or diplomatic structure had been hit in Iraq.



Local press

According to local media, the Italian soldiers present in the military base near the Erbil airport are not involved. Instead, five civilians were injured in a residential area of ​​the city near the airport. Kurdish television Rudaw reports that the rockets were fired from the Hamdaniya district near Mosul.