Contractor killed, U.S. service member injured in Irbil rocket attack

The entrance to Irbil International Airport.
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A civilian contractor was killed and a U.S. service member injured on Monday night when a U.S. facility in Irbil came under rocket fire.

Irbil is the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. Coalition spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto tweeted that "indirect fire landed on coalition forces" in Irbil, leaving six people injured and the civilian contractor dead.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.