Another Iraqi security source said the rockets were launched from the Baiader area.
No one was injured in the attack and it is not yet clear who was behind the strike.
The attack on the Ain al-Assad base in Iraq’s western desert comes after several weeks of escalating US-Iran tensions on Iraqi soil.
A member of the Iraqi forces walks past a mural depicting Pope Francis waving (Image: Getty)
A view inside Ain al-Asad military airbase housing US and other foreign troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar (Image: Getty)
On February 26, US President Joe Biden authorised an airstrike on an Iran-backed Shia militia compound in neighbouring Syria.
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