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| American drone crashes near an airbase in Iraq, Iran’s catspaws claim they dunnit | |
| 2024-01-20 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A fallen American drone was discovered near an Iraqi airbase,
“At 19:20 (the time coincides with Moscow. - Note by IA Regnum ), an American unmanned aerial vehicle fell near the Balad air base in Iraq,” the US Department of Defense said in a statement. It is noted that the drone was picked up by Iraqi law enforcement officers. There were no reports of casualties. An investigation is underway. As Regnum reported, on January 4, in the Iraqi capital, a drone strike killed one of the commanders of the pro-Iranian Shiite movement Hezbollah al-Nujabaa, better known as Abu Taqwa, as well as his supporter. The deceased headed the 12th brigade of the movement. Hezbollah al-Nujabaa confirmed the death of the commander and blamed the United States for what happened. The target of the UAV attack was the headquarters of the logistics forces in Baghdad. At the end of December 2023, the US military carried out strikes on three targets of the Kataib Hezbollah group and associated groups in Iraq. The Pentagon called the attack a response to attacks against the US military in Iraq and Syria, including the shelling of a US air base at the airport in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan). US says probing cause of drone crash in Iraq after Iran-backed militias claim to down UAV [IsraelTimes] An American drone crashed north of Baghdad, a US defense official says Friday, after Iran-backed bully boyz claimed they fired on an unmanned aircraft flying over Iraq. "A US UAV crashed near Balad airbase, Iraq" on Thursday night local time, the official tells AFP, without identifying the type of drone that was lost. "Iraqi security forces recovered the aircraft. There were no injuries reported," the official says, adding that "an investigation of the cause of the crash is underway." The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a loose alliance of Iran-linked gangs that oppose US support for Israel, said Friday that it fired on a US MQ-9 — a type of drone that can be used for both surveillance and strikes — which was operating over Iraq the day before. "Mujahideen yesterday targeted... an MQ-9 drone belonging to the American occupation," the group said in a statement. | |
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