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Baghdad/Damascus, April 22, Five rockets were fired from Iraq toward a US military base in neighbouring Syria, an Iraqi security source told the media. The attack occurred when unidentified fighters launched the rockets from an Iraqi village near the town of Zummar, northwest of Mosul, the provincial capital of Nineveh, toward northeastern Syrian territories, the unnamed source from the provincial police said on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a failed attempt by Iranian-backed groups to attack a US base at the Kharab al-Jir airport with drones in the northern countryside of Syria's northeastern province of al-Hasakah,…