BAGHDAD, Jul 7 (NNN-NINA) – A booby-trapped drone, last night struck the Erbil airport, which houses a U.S.-led coalition military base, in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, in northern Iraq.
The attack took place at 11:30 p.m. local time (2030 GMT), without causing casualties, except for a fire on the site, the regional Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism (CT), said, in a statement on its official Facebook page.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, on the relatively peaceful Kurdistan region.
On Jun 26, Erbil was hit by four booby-trapped drones, without causing casualties, according to a CT statement.
The Kurdish region in northern Iraq has been relatively peaceful, but such attacks have frequently targeted the Baghdad airport and Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops, as well as, the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone.– NNN-NINA
