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2025-06-23 Iraq
Two suicide drones intercepted near Erbil airport
[Rudaw] Two explosive-laden drones were downed near a village northwest of Erbil, Kurdish counterterrorism forces said on Sunday, as regional tensions soar following US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.

"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 spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Israel. On Sunday, the United States struck Iran’s three main nuclear sites - Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

The Arclight airstrike
...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.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-23 2025-06-23 00:49|| || Front Page|| ||Comments [34 views ]  Top
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