Two drones were shot down on Sunday (June 6) over a base in Iraq housing American soldiers, already targeted a month ago by a trapped drone, a technique used by pro-Iranian armed groups, the army said. Iraqi.
The C-RAM defense batteries, installed by the US military after the proliferation of attacks, went into action at dawn to intercept these drones over the Ain al-Assad air base in the West. desert.
A few hours earlier, a rocket fell on Baghdad airport, "
without causing any victim or damage
", according to the spokesperson for the anti-jihadist coalition led by the United States, Colonel Wayne Marotto.
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The new attempted attack on the Ain al-Assad base is worrying for the United States, a country enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The United States is deploying troops in Iraq, and Iran has a very strong influence in that neighboring country.
The US military accuses pro-Iran Iraqi groups of aiding Yemeni Houthi rebels in drones attacking Saudi Arabia, which borders Iraq and Yemen.
And Iraqi groups have been using the same technique - trapped drones - against American targets in Iraq for several months.
In total since the start of the year, there have been 39 attacks against Americans, sometimes claimed by pro-Iran and each time attributed to them by Washington.
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