Explosive drone targets Global Coalition Against ISIS military base in Erbil, causing no damage

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – An explosive drone attacked the Global Coalition Against ISIS military base at Erbil International Airport on Monday at 4:03 p.m., according to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Directorate General of Counter Terrorism.

Kurdistan24 has learned that the attack did not cause any damage, and flights at Erbil International Airport are running as usual.

On Dec. 8, an unidentified suicide drone crashed into a residential building in Erbil at 6:05 p.m., causing no casualties.

Also, on the same day at dawn, at least three rockets targeted the US Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone, landing on the outskirts of the district housing government and diplomatic buildings, an Iraqi security official said.

In response to the Green Zone attack, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shi’a al-Sudani swiftly directed all security leaders to pursue the perpetrators of the attacks and bring them to justice.

Iranian-backed groups have stepped up rocket and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Syria and Iraq, including those from the Kurdistan Region following the eruption of the Hamas-Israel war, sparked by the Palestinian Islamist group’s Oct. 7 bloody attack on the southern communities of the Jewish state.