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Drone Attack: Drone attack targets Iraq’s Harir base, sirens sound at US embassy
BAGHDAD: An armed drone focused al-Harir airbase internet hosting US forces in northern Iraq, two safety sources stated on Wednesday, following sirens warning of a doable assault on the US embassy in Baghdad.
The sirens sounded on the US embassy on Wednesday night, a number of individuals in Baghdad’s closely fortified Inexperienced Zone that homes the embassy stated, however there have been no reviews of projectile impacts or casualties.
A spokesperson for the US embassy and an Iraqi authorities safety official didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
US and worldwide forces based mostly in Iraq and throughout the border in Syria have been on excessive alert amid dozens of assaults on their bases within the weeks for the reason that Israel-Hamas conflict broke out.
US officers stated a lot of the assaults have failed to succeed in their targets resulting from strong defence methods. They blame the assaults on teams backed by Iran.
A bunch referred to as the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” has claimed most of the assaults, saying they have been in response to US backing for Israel in its conflict on Hamas, wherein Palestinian well being officers say greater than 10,000 individuals, 40% of them youngsters, have been killed.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani has pledged to pursue these answerable for the assaults, together with on three navy bases in Iraq internet hosting coalition advisers. Among the many bases have been Ain al-Asad in western Iraq, a navy base close to Baghdad’s worldwide airport and Harir in Erbil.
The sirens sounded on the US embassy on Wednesday night, a number of individuals in Baghdad’s closely fortified Inexperienced Zone that homes the embassy stated, however there have been no reviews of projectile impacts or casualties.
A spokesperson for the US embassy and an Iraqi authorities safety official didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
US and worldwide forces based mostly in Iraq and throughout the border in Syria have been on excessive alert amid dozens of assaults on their bases within the weeks for the reason that Israel-Hamas conflict broke out.
US officers stated a lot of the assaults have failed to succeed in their targets resulting from strong defence methods. They blame the assaults on teams backed by Iran.
A bunch referred to as the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” has claimed most of the assaults, saying they have been in response to US backing for Israel in its conflict on Hamas, wherein Palestinian well being officers say greater than 10,000 individuals, 40% of them youngsters, have been killed.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani has pledged to pursue these answerable for the assaults, together with on three navy bases in Iraq internet hosting coalition advisers. Among the many bases have been Ain al-Asad in western Iraq, a navy base close to Baghdad’s worldwide airport and Harir in Erbil.
