Three rockets have been fired at Baghdad’s heavily guarded international airport, hitting a runway and plane, but no casualties have been reported.<br /><br />Air traffic was not disrupted, but the ability of militants<br />to strike such a site is likely to heighten concerns about the vulnerability of Iraq’s vital infrastructure as security deteriorates across the country.<br /><br />Sunni Islamist rebels, including an al Qaeda affiliated<br />group, have been regaining momentum in the country over the past year, driving violence to its highest level in five years. More than 9,000 people were killed in 2013.<br /><br />Now reports from rebel media sources in Fallujah claim that an army barracks south of the city was captured and razed to the ground earlier this week.<br /><br />The Iraqi army has been engaged in a month-long standoff with anti-government fighters who overran the city at the start of the month.
