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Harir Air Base (ICAO: ORBR; Kurdish: بنکەی ئاسمانیی ھەریر) is a military airfield located near to the town of Harir, in the Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. The base was previously known as Bashur Air Base and was seized during Operation Northern Delay as part of 2003 invasion of Iraq .
There are approximately 2,500 U.S. service members in Iraq, [14] spread across several facilities in Iraq and other bases in Iraqi Kurdistan, [15] being used as training bases for Iraqi and Kurdish forces [16] as well as launching operations against targets in Syria.
Defence systems shot down an armed drone on Wednesday over Erbil airport in northern Iraq where U.S. and other international forces are stationed, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visiting the U.S. air base near the airport in 2019. The rocket attacks took place in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The city has typically not seen the same kinds of violence as other parts of Iraq since the 2003 American invasion. [4]
The Iranian-backed militant group earlier claimed credit for using a one-way attack drone to target the US forces on Erbil Air Base on Monday morning, the White House said.
In early August 2014, ISIL launched a new offensive against Kurdish-held territory in northern Iraq and within days captured the town of Sinjar, displacing its Yazidi population. ISIL had also advanced to within 40 kilometers from the Kurdish capital of Erbil. This prompted the United States to start launching air-strikes on advancing ISIL forces.
Air traffic resumed at Iraqi Kurdistan's two airports on Monday evening after a brief suspension due to suspected drones activity in the Kurdish region's airspace, two security sources said. Air ...