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Iraq fears escalation after deadly rocket attack, air strike

US troops supervise a training session at the Taji camp, north of Baghdad - the site of the Wednesday night rocket attack. [AFP]

Iraqi and United Nations officials scrambled Thursday to contain the fallout from an unprecedented rocket attack that killed three US-led coalition members and threatened yet another escalation of Iran-US tensions.

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