BAGHDAD, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Six security personnel were wounded on Sunday in separate attacks on military bases in Baghdad and central Babil province, Iraqi security sources said.
Five members of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service were injured before dawn when rockets struck Victoria Base at Baghdad International Airport, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Separately, Iraq's paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces said in a statement that four Israeli-U.S. airstrikes hit its medical facilities in the Jurf al-Nasr area of Babil province at 8:30 p.m. local time (1730 GMT), wounding one member of the medical unit and causing material damage to the site.
Later Sunday evening, a series of booby-trapped drone attacks targeted Victoria Base, the Interior Ministry source said. The extent of casualties from this specific attack remains unknown.
The attacks came amid heightened regional tensions following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran starting on Feb. 28, to which Iran and its regional allies have responded with attacks on Israeli and U.S. interests across the Middle East. ■
