(CNN) Barbara Starr - The U.S. government believes that Iranian-backed groups are behind a series of increasingly sophisticated rocket attacks on joint U.S.-Iraq military facilities in Iraq, U.S. officials say. There have been nine rocket attacks on or near Iraqi facilities that host U.S. troops in the last five weeks. In the most recent attack on Monday, four rockets struck a military training site near Baghdad International Airport, injuring six Iraqi security forces.
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