BAGHDAD -- Three Katyusha rockets on Saturday landed on an Iraqi military airbase in Iraq's Salahudin province, a provincial security source said.

The attack took place in the evening when the Katyusha rockets landed in Balad airbase, some 90 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Mohammed al-Bazi, from the provincial police, told Xinhua. (Iraq-Rockets-Airbase)

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TEHRAN -- Iran's Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said Saturday that the borders between Iran and Iraq will be closed over the resurgence of COVID-19 in the Iranian southwestern province of Khuzestan.

"To control the coronavirus outbreak in Khuzestan province, Iran's borders with Iraq will be closed and commuting to the province is not allowed," Rahmani Fazli was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency. (Iran-Borders-COVID19)

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ADEN, Yemen -- Yemen's pro-government forces announced Saturday that nearly 40 members of the Houthi rebel group were killed in the ongoing fighting in the country's northeastern province of Marib.

According to a brief statement released by the pro-government Ministry of Defence, "the army units launched artillery shelling and killed a total of 40 members of the Houthi militia in Marib's northern outskirts." (Yemen-Houthi)

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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi Ministry of Health reported on Saturday 3,273 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total nationwide infections to 664,750.

It also reported 13 new deaths, raising the death toll from the infectious virus to 13,245, while the total recoveries in Iraq climbed by 1,978 to 616,507. (Iraq-COVID19) Enditem

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