"The base came under two separate Katyusha rockets attacks but left no casualties or damage," Cap. Chris Ford, the spokesman for the MNF in Basra, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

"Most of the rockets landed east of the Basra airport," Ford explained.

This is the fifth time in the past four weeks that the airport has come under attack with indirect fire.
The attacks on the airport stopped after launching the wide-scale operation Saulet al-Foursan (Knights Assault) in the southern province last March.

British soldiers were stationed in one base - the Basra International Airport, 25 km northeast of the province - after handing over the former presidential palaces, which they took as a military base, to the Iraqi forces.

The British occupation forces in the oil-rich port city of Basra, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, keep 4,100 troops within the MNF in Iraq.

Britain was the United States' prime ally in the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Ceremonies to hand over security responsibilities in Basra province from the British forces to the Iraqi authorities took place at the Basra International Airport in December 2007.

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