A drone targeted a US diplomatic facility in Iraq on Tuesday in an attack believed to have been carried out by Iran-aligned armed groups, the Washington Post reported. The newspaper, citing an Iraqi security official and an internal alert from the US State Department, said one of six drones struck the US Diplomatic Support Centre near Baghdad International Airport. Air defences shot down the other five drones. The centre is an important logistics hub supporting the work of US diplomats in Iraq and is located near Iraqi military bases. There were no confirmed reports of casualties. The White House, the US State Department and the Pentagon declined to comment on the attack. READ: France ‘cannot approve’ US-Israeli strikes on Iran: Foreign […]
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