A booby-trapped drone attack on Saturday targeted the Ain Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq’s Anbar province, an Iraqi security officer told Anadolu Agency, APA reports.
"A booby-trapped drone exploded inside the Al-Asad airbase near positions where the Iraqi army is stationed,” a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
The officer said the attack did not cause any casualties or material damage in the base which also hosts American forces.
"The Iraqi security forces began a search operation in the area surrounding the military base to track the source of the drone," he said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack and the US-led anti-Daesh/ISIS coalition has yet to comment on the incident.
Saturday’s attack was the second on the base in less than a week after two Katyusha rockets struck the airbase last week without causing casualties.
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