Rockets and mortar rounds struck a refugee camp for Iranian exiles next to Baghdad’s international airport today, killing six people and wounding about 40, police and UN officials said.

Iraqi forces have stormed a settlement of Iranian exiles near the two nations’ border that prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has long sought to expel.

TWO television journalists were killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb yesterday.

The US coalition in Iraq saw its size dwindle today as Ukraine and Bulgaria said all of their troops had left the country while Poland said it would remain, but reduce its number of troops by 600 next year.

Bulgaria began withdrawing the remainder of its troops from Iraq and the first group of more than 100 were expected to arrive home today, the Defence Ministry announced.