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Drone packed with explosives attacks US base in Iraq

05/08/2021

A drone packed with explosives hit an Iraqi base housing US troops early Saturday causing damage but no casualties, the US military said.

The attack on the Ain Al-Asad airbase was the fourth in Iraq in less than a week.

“Each attack… undermines the authority of Iraqi institutions, the rule of law, and Iraqi national sovereignty,” said US-led coalition spokesman Colonel Wayne Marotto.

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