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Iraq
Drone attacked an American base in Iraqi Kurdistan, media reports.
2024-01-19
Direct Translation via Google Translate.
[Regnum] The American base, which is located near the Erbil air harbor in Iraqi Kurdistan, was attacked using a drone, Al Arabiya TV channel reported on January 18.

At the US Consulate, due to the drone attack, sirens went off, and near the airport, local residents heard the sounds of explosions, the material notes.

As reported by Regnum news agency, a series of explosions occurred in the Iraqi city of Erbil on the night of January 15-16. The explosions occurred near the US consulate and international airport in northern Iraq.

The IRGC later reported that Iran had fired 24 ballistic missiles at targets in Iraq and Syria. Four Khyber Breaker missiles were fired from Khuzestan province at ISIS positions in the Idlib region. The Iranian military launched another nine missiles at positions of “terrorist groups” in other areas of Syria.

In addition, four missiles from the west and seven missiles from the north-west of Iran were fired at the Mossad headquarters in Iraqi Kurdistan, the IRGC added. Iraqi authorities complained about aggression from Iran in an appeal to the UN Security Council.

The Tasnim agency previously reported that after the IRGC strikes on Erbil, the Chairman of the Security Council of the Democratic Party of Iraqi Kurdistan, Suleiman Amin Nader, could have been killed. The material states that Nader was one of the key figures in Iraqi Kurdistan, collaborated with Israeli intelligence, and also participated in organizing the terrorist attack that killed Iranian physicist and researcher at the Iranian Ministry of Defense Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Posted by:badanov

#4  I tried to tell the SOB's in Washington, but they insisted on shooting the messenger.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-01-19 09:31  

#3  Nothing new.
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Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131   2024-01-19 09:03  

#2  Islamic Jihad psychological warfare leader killed
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-19 07:47  

#1  Why do we have an airbase in Iraqi Kurdistan?


Close it and get the fuck out of there? Why do we need more war? And this is all run by the same people who got their asses kicked in Afghanistan. How many of them got fired after that? Zero.
Posted by: Thrans White2909   2024-01-19 02:26  

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