The Iraqi military stated Sunday two drones had been destroyed above a base housing US troops, one month after the identical base was focused by an armed drone.
The US army’s C-RAM defence system was activated to shoot down the drones above the Ain al-Assad base, positioned in Iraq’s western desert, the Iraqi army stated.
Several hours earlier a rocket was shot down above Baghdad airport, “with out inflicting casualties or harm,” said Colonel Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the US-led military coalition in Iraq.
The coalition was sent to Iraq to help the country’s military fight the Islamic State jihadist group — a campaign that Baghdad declared won in late 2017.
The US consistently blames Iran-linked Iraqi factions for rocket attacks against Iraqi installations housing its personnel.
Since the start of this year there have been 39 attacks against US interests in Iraq.
The vast majority have been bombs against logistics convoys, while 14 were rocket attacks, some of them claimed by pro-Iran factions, who aim to pressure Washington into withdrawing all their troops.
The use of drones against American interests by these factions is a relatively new tactic, although the US military has previously accused pro-Iran Iraqi groups of helping Yemen’s Huthi rebels carry out attacks using such devices against Saudi interests.
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