{"id":236657,"date":"2022-01-04T07:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T02:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=236657"},"modified":"2022-01-04T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T02:53:24","slug":"drone-attack-on-us-base-near-baghdad-airport-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/drone-attack-on-us-base-near-baghdad-airport-foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone attack on US base near Baghdad airport foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Baghdad<br \/>\nTwo armed drones were shot down as they approached an Iraqi military base hosting US forces near Baghdad\u2019s international airport, Iraqi security sources said, adding that nobody was hurt in the incident.<br \/>\nAn official of the US-led international military coalition stationed there said the base\u2019s defence system engaged \u201ctwo fixed-wing suicide drones\u2026 they were shot down without incident\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThis was a dangerous attack on a civilian airport,\u201d the coalition official said in a brief statement on Monday.<br \/>\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.<br \/>\nFootage provided by the coalition showed what the official said was debris of two fixed-wing drones destroyed in the attack, with writing clearly visible on the wing of one drone reading \u201cSoleimani\u2019s revenge\u201d.<br \/>\nThe attack came as Iran and its allies in Iraq marked the second anniversary of the assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a drone strike ordered by Donald Trump near Baghdad airport.<br \/>\nSoleimani, head of an elite overseas unit of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed along with Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 3, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad Two armed drones were shot down as they approached an Iraqi military base hosting US forces near Baghdad\u2019s international airport, Iraqi security sources said, adding that nobody was hurt in the incident. An official of the US-led international military coalition stationed there said the base\u2019s defence system engaged \u201ctwo fixed-wing suicide drones\u2026 they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drone attack on US base near Baghdad airport foiled<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/drone-attack-on-us-base-near-baghdad-airport-foiled\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drone attack on US base near Baghdad airport foiled\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Baghdad Two armed drones were shot down as they approached an Iraqi military base hosting US forces near Baghdad\u2019s international airport, Iraqi security sources said, adding that nobody was hurt in the incident. 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