Two armed drones were shot down on Monday as they approached an Iraqi military base hosting US forces near Baghdad's international airport, Iraqi security sources said, adding nobody was hurt in the incident.
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The attack came as Iran and its allies in Iraq marked the second anniversary of the assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.
In 2020, Soleimani was killed in a drone strike near Baghdad airport ordered by then-US president Donald Trump.
Commenting on the attack, an official of the US-led international military coalition said the base's defense system had engaged "two fixed-wing suicide drones. They were shot down without incident".
"This was a dangerous attack on a civilian airport," the coalition official said in a brief statement.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Armed groups that some Iraqi officials say are backed by Iran have claimed responsibility for similar incidents in the past.
