"Two explosive-laden drones were destroyed and downed. Fortunately, no material or human casualties resulted from them," the Erbil-based Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD) said on Facebook.
The drones reportedly fell on an agricultural land near Qalachoghan village in Erbil’s Baharka subdistrict, a few kilometers from the city’s international airport. Rudaw’s Ranja Jamal, reporting from the scene, said security forces had arrived to investigate.
The origin of the drone and who downed it remains unclear.
The incident comes amid escalating conflict between Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
and Israel. On Sunday, the United States struck Iran’s three main nuclear sites - Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
The
...KABOOM!...
s followed a deadly Israeli assault on June 13 that killed several senior Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists. In retaliation, Iran has launched multiple waves of missiles and drones targeting Israeli sites.
The Kurdistan Region and Iraq lie beneath the flight paths of many of these projectiles. In recent days, there have been several reports of drones and debris falling from the sky, occasionally sparking fires.