Overnight attacks target US center at Baghdad airport: security officials

Above, a house that was damaged by a drone strike in the Al-Saydiya neighborhood of Baghdad on March 22, 2026.(AFP)

• ‘Eight separate attacks, carried out until dawn with rockets and drones targeted the US center’ – senior security official

BAGHDAD: Eight overnight attacks targeted a US diplomatic and logistics center at Baghdad’s International Airport, an Iraqi security official told AFP on Sunday.
“Eight separate attacks, carried out until dawn with rockets and drones targeted the US center,” a senior security official told AFP, adding that “some rockets landed near the base.”
A second security official said there had been six strikes, with a police source saying a rocket launcher was discovered in a Baghdad district near the airport.