A person seems at an Iranian every day newspaper, displaying a picture of an explosion in Israel, at a newstand in Tehran on June 15, 2025. Israel pressed its intense bombardment marketing campaign on Iran on June 15, hanging a defence facility and gasoline depots as the 2 arch foes saved up their most intense confrontation in historical past. (Picture by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
BAGHDAD — Two drones launched from Iran in the direction of Israel have been shot down over Iraq by the US-led worldwide coalition to defeat the Islamic State group, two Iraqi army officers informed AFP on Sunday.
“The worldwide coalition at Ain al-Asad (army base) shot down two Iranian drones that have been en path to Israel,” one official stated, referring to an Iraqi airbase housing overseas troops in western Iraq.
The drones have been shot down in a single day Saturday to Sunday, he added, talking on situation of anonymity to debate the matter.
The opposite official stated the drones have been focused as a result of they entered the defensive perimeter of the anti-jihadist coalition, the place troops are instructed to have interaction any potential risk.
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Israel on Friday launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, hitting army and nuclear websites in addition to residential areas. In response, the Islamic republic has fired lots of of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel.
A number of missiles and drones have fallen in Iraqi territory, largely within the desert, with out inflicting casualties.
An “explosive drone” was shot down by the coalition at Ain al-Asad on Friday, based on an Iraqi official.
The federal government in Baghdad is a detailed ally of Tehran, but in addition a strategic associate of Iran’s arch-foe the US, which has some 2,500 troops in Iraq as a part of the anti-jihadist coalition.
Baghdad and Washington have agreed on a timetable for the gradual withdrawal of the coalition’s forces.
By September, the troops are scheduled to depart bases in federal Iraq — together with Ain al-Asad — and by the top of 2026, they’re set to withdraw from the autonomous Kurdistan area in northern Iraq.
Influential Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah on Sunday warned the US about direct involvement in Israel’s assault on Iran.
“The Islamic republic wants no army help from anybody to repel the legal Zionist entity — it has the lads and capabilities to place (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu within the mud,” it stated in a press release.
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“We’re carefully monitoring the actions of the American enemy’s military. If America intervenes within the warfare, we’ll act straight and with out hesitation towards its pursuits and bases all through the area.”
