BAGHDAD, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi Thursday launched an investigation into an attack on a U.S.-led coalition base at Erbil airport in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq.

Yahia Rasoul, spokesman of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi forces, said in a statement that al-Kadhimi ordered an investigation into the attack in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, stressing that some parties "are trying to create chaos and destabilize security and stability. This is unacceptable and will be confronted with the force of law and the solidarity of the Iraqi people."

On Wednesday evening, a booby-trapped drone carrying TNT explosives struck a U.S.-led coalition base in Erbil airport without causing any casualties except for damages to a building, according to a statement by the regional Ministry of Interior.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on the relatively peaceful Kurdistan region.

On February 15, several rockets landed in and near Erbil airport and the coalition base, killing a foreign civilian contractor with the international coalition forces, and wounding nine others, including an American soldier.

An unknown armed faction calling itself the Awliya al-Dam Brigades, or Guardians of blood, claimed responsibility for the February attack.

Such attacks have frequently targeted Iraqi airports and military bases housing U.S. troops, as well as the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone with mortar and rocket attacks. Enditem

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