The incident comes two years after a US drone strike killed Iran’s revered Common Soleimani.
Two armed drones had been shot down as they approached an Iraqi navy base internet hosting US forces close to Baghdad’s worldwide airport, Iraqi safety sources mentioned, including that no person was damage within the incident.
An official of the US-led worldwide navy coalition stationed there mentioned the bottom’s defence system engaged “two fixed-wing suicide drones… they had been shot down with out incident”.
“This was a harmful assault on a civilian airport,” the coalition official mentioned in a short assertion on Monday.
There was no rapid declare of duty for the assault.
Footage supplied by the coalition confirmed what the official mentioned was particles of two fixed-wing drones destroyed within the assault, with writing clearly seen on the wing of 1 drone studying “Soleimani’s revenge”.
The assault got here as Iran and its allies in Iraq marked the second anniversary of the assassination of prime Iranian Common Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a drone strike ordered by Donald Trump close to Baghdad airport.
Soleimani, head of an elite abroad unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed together with Iraqi militia chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 3, 2020.
A whole bunch of supporters of Iran-backed militia teams gathered on Sunday at Baghdad airport to mark the anniversary of Soleimani’s demise and to chant anti-American slogans.
The Hashed – a coalition of former paramilitary teams now built-in into the Iraqi state safety equipment – held a candle-lit vigil on Sunday on the airport for the 2 males killed.
The US mentioned on the time that Soleimani was planning imminent motion in opposition to US personnel in Iraq, a rustic lengthy torn between the competing calls for of its principal allies Washington and Tehran.
5 days after his killing, Iran fired missiles at an airbase in Iraq housing US troops and one other close to Erbil within the nation’s north.
Since then, dozens of rockets and roadside bombs have focused US safety, navy and diplomatic websites throughout Iraq.
On December 9, the US-led coalition declared it had completed its fight mission in Iraq and that its roughly 2,500 troops would shift to a purely coaching and advisory position.