“The international coalition at Ain al-Asad (military base) shot down two Iranian drones that were en route to Israel,“ one official said, referring to an Iraqi airbase housing foreign troops in western Iraq.
The other official said the drones were targeted because they entered the defensive perimeter of the anti-jihadist coalition, where troops are instructed to engage any potential threat.
Several missiles and drones have fallen in Iraqi territory, mostly in the desert, without causing casualties.
The government in Baghdad is a close ally of Tehran, but also a strategic partner of Iran’s arch-foe the United States, which has some 2,500 troops in Iraq as part of the anti-jihadist coalition.
By September, the troops are scheduled to leave bases in federal Iraq -- including Ain al-Asad -- and by the end of 2026, they are set to withdraw from the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
“The Islamic republic needs no military support from anyone to repel the criminal Zionist entity -- it has the men and capabilities to put (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu in the dust,“ it said in a statement.
“We are closely monitoring the movements of the American enemy’s army. If America intervenes in the war, we will act directly and without hesitation against its interests and bases throughout the region.”
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