Two rockets slammed into Kandahar Airfield Sunday, leaving one NATO soldier injured.
The attack ends a month-long period of relative calm.
CTV's Paul Workman, reporting from Kandahar, said the soldier was not a Canadian.
"The two rockets hit simultaneously in the early evening here," Workman told Â鶹´«Ã½net.
"The military tell us that one soldier, not a Canadian, an ISAF soldier, was slightly wounded. The rockets slammed into the ground and sent up gravel and he was hit in the face. He will be released from hospital tonight."
The rockets that struck Sunday sent roughly 10,000 soldiers and civilians scrambling for bomb shelters, The Canadian Press reports.
Capt. Andre Salloum, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, said no damage to buildings was reported.
But for security reasons, he refused to discuss where the rockets hit inside the camp. He said the activity doesn't indicate a new Taliban campaign.
"This is common for them. This is one of the tactics they use to say, `Hey we're around.' The largest amount they've dumped into the camp at any one time is six, so two is not unusual.''
Workman said Sunday's rocket strike on the Kandahar base was the first since Jan. 13. Last fall, however, rockets were being fired at the base between two and three times a week.
The lack of recent missile attacks has been a welcome break from last year when the base was getting hit regularly. The most devastating strike came last June when 10 people were injured after a tent complex was struck.
Sunday's rockets were of the 107-millimetre variety, and were either Chinese or Russian made, CP reports.
They are plentiful on the black market, easy to carry and have an effective range of 10 kilometres.
The Taliban have been threatening to launch a spring offensive against NATO forces, but for the last two weeks have mostly targeted positions manned by Afghan police.
On Saturday, however, a suicide bomber targeted a Canadian convoy. He detonated his explosive early, however, and only succeeded in killing himself and causing minor damage to an armoured patrol car.
With files from The Canadian Press
