Iraq drone attack targets US forces at Erbil airport;
Iraq drone attack targets US forces at Erbil airport. The Kurdish Interior Minister said that an unexpected escalation of weapons used to strike the US soldier. There was an assault at the airport in the capital of Iraq Kurdistan Erbil. The Erbil airport has attacked by a drone with TNT. However, the Ministry said nobody has injured but a building destroyed. Meanwhile, at a military base 50 kilometers east in Bashiqa, a Turkish soldier has murdered by rocket fire at around one point. But there has no immediate confirmation that the two attacks were related.
We firmly condemn tonight’s terror attacks in Erbil and Bashiqa. Kurdish Area Premier Masrour Barzani said in a tweet after meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. We promised to keep in touch as the inquiry progressed. Turkey has troops in Iraq. Meanwhile, Iran-backed militias condemn both the US and Turkey’s involvement and demand the evacuation of all foreign troops. There has no immediate assertion of responsibility for the airport drone strike which resulted in an explosion that could be heard in Erbil.
More than a dozen rockets launched at a military complex inside Erbil airport:
Awliyaa al-Dam (Guardians of Blood), a mysterious pro-Iranian organization that took responsibility for a similar airport attack in February. Hailed the blast in pro-Tehran outlets on the messaging app Telegram. According to observers, a security cordon barred all entry to the airport on Thursday. The governor of Erbil said that air connections had not disrupted. Moreover, a car bomb exploded at a busy second-hand machinery market in Baghdad’s Sadr City. Shia neighborhood killing four people and injuring 17 according to Iraqi police and medical sources. Suicide attacks in Baghdad have extremely rare after the government declared the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in 2017.
In January, IS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Baghdad market that killed at least 32 civilians. Making it Iraq’s first major bombing in three years. Since US President Joe Biden took office at the end of January, 20 bombs and missile attacks have attacked by American soldiers in Iraq. Hundreds more occurred in the previous 18 months. On February 15th, more than a dozen rockets launched at a military complex inside Erbil airport. The US has sometimes reacted with airstrikes against Iran-aligned militias, along with the Iraq-Syria border. Former President Donald Trump ordered an air attack in January 2020 that killed Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, bringing the country to the verge of war.
