An unmanned aerial vehicle has targeted a major base in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, where US military forces and trainers are stationed, amid simmering anti-US sentiment over Washington’s unqualified support for the relentless Israeli air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters, in separate statements published on its Telegram channel claimed responsibility for the attack on a US-run installation near Erbil International Airport early on Friday.
It said the drone strike was carried out in retaliation for US support of Israel’s bloody war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The group noted that it will continue to target US-occupied military bases across the region.
There were no immediate reports about the extent of damage at the military facility, and possible casualties.
The United States, Israel’s biggest ally, has provided the regime with arms and ammunitions since the initiation of the Gaza war.
Washington has also vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions that called on the occupying regime to cease its aggression.
Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance groups of Hamas and Islamic Jihad carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories in response to the occupying regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, at least 24,620 Palestinians have been killed in the strikes, most of them women and children, and another 61,830 individuals injured.
Tel Aviv has also imposed a “complete siege” on Gaza, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
