Explosive drone shot down at Erbil Air Base, says CTD

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – An explosive drone has been shot down at the Erbil Air Base adjacent to the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil International Airport, the Kurdish counter-terrorism reported.

An “outlawed group” launched an explosive drone towards the Erbil Air Base, housing the international Coalition against ISIS, at 9:52 PM (local time), the General Directorate of Counter Terrorism said.

The drone was shot down, the press release said.

The statement did not elaborate on whether any causality had been reported.

The Coalition forces have recently come under increasing drone attacks from the militia groups.

At least three US service members were wounded at a drone strike on the base in late December, prompting a US retaliatory strike on an Iranian-backed militia group, killing at least a militia member and wounding 18 others.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani has recently launched an investigation into a drone strike that hit a Peshmerga base in Erbil on Saturday evening, causing material damages only.

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.

Since then, the American forces both in Iraq and Syria have come under more than 100 attacks.