{"id":17253,"date":"2026-03-30T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=17253"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:45:33","slug":"iraqi-armed-forces-say-transport-aircraft-destroyed-in-rocket-strike-on-airbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=17253","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi armed forces say transport aircraft destroyed in rocket strike on airbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockets fired overnight targeted an Iraqi military base inside the Baghdad airport complex, which also houses a support centre for the US embassy, Iraq\u2019s defence ministry said, reports AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The base is near a US diplomatic and logistics hub in the airport complex, which has been repeatedly targeted since the start of the war in the Middle East on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Monday morning, \u201can air base was targeted by 122mm Grad rockets launched from the outskirts of Baghdad\u201d, a statement from the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis attack resulted in the destruction of an Antonov-132 aircraft belonging to the Iraqi Air Force. No casualties were reported,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>A military official told AFP that \u201crockets fell inside the diplomatic support centre early Monday morning, causing a fire\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockets fired overnight targeted an Iraqi military base inside the Baghdad airport complex, which also houses a support centre for the US embassy, Iraq\u2019s defence ministry said, reports AFP. The base is near a US diplomatic and logistics hub in the airport complex, which has been repeatedly targeted since the start of the war in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}