A drone dropped explosives close to U.S. forces stationed at Erbil airport in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, Kurdish officers mentioned, with no rapid studies of casualties.
It was the primary identified assault carried out by an unmanned aerial drone in opposition to U.S. forces in Erbil, amid a gentle stream of rocket assaults on bases internet hosting U.S. forces and the embassy in Baghdad that Washington blames on Iran-backed militias.
The Interior Ministry of the autonomous Kurdistan regional authorities, primarily based in Erbil, mentioned in an announcement the drone was carrying TNT which it used to focus on the U.S. forces. It mentioned nobody was harm within the assault.
A bunch that Western and a few Iraqi officers say is aligned with Iran praised the assault, however didn’t explicitly declare it.
A barrage of rockets hit the identical U.S.-led army base within the Erbil Airport neighborhood in February, killing a non-American contractor working for the army.