BAGHDAD, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Two rockets on Monday landed near an Iraqi military airbase in Iraq's Salahudin province in the north of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.

The attack took place in the evening when the rockets landed at the edge of Balad airbase, some 90 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, without causing casualties, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a brief statement.

The rockets were fired from Saadiyat al-Shatt, an area located across the Tigris River in the neighboring Diyala province, according to the statement.

Balad airbase is the largest military airbase in Iraq and was known by the U.S. forces as Logistics Support Activity (LSA) Anaconda. The airbase still houses some U.S. experts and advisers of a U.S. company operating the Iraqi F-16 jet fighters, but the U.S. troops withdrew more than a year ago after the airbase came under a series of rocket attacks by unidentified militias.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops across Iraq, as well as the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone, have been frequently targeted by mortar and rocket attacks. Enditem

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