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Another 135,000 private military contractors were also working in Iraq. [1] [2] Due to International military intervention against ISIL, personnel have returned to old bases and new bases created. Control of many U.S.-operated bases was transferred to the Iraqi government during the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal.
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 .
The American government reduced its forces taking part in the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR), the official name of the U.S.-led coalition that is fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, [14] [15] to 2,500 by the same month, [16] with most of them being concentrated at the military complex near the Erbil ...
Following the November election, American forces will start departing from Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq and from Baghdad International Airport, according to Iraqi government officials who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Those forces will be moved to Hareer base in Erbil, in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region.
The U.S. military doubled the number of service members who it said may have suffered traumatic ... An explosives-filled drone hit the roof of a building housing U.S. troops on a base in Erbil ...
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.
The United States military attempted to defend the base with Patriot missiles. More than 15 MIM-104 Patriot missiles were launched to defend the base. [48] On August 5, 2024, a missile attack targeted the Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, resulting in injuries to at least five US servicemembers and two contractors. [49]
A brigadier general fired a 155mm howitzer during an exercise at Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, the hub of US operations in Iraq to counter ISIS. ... an independent Iraq analyst based in Erbil, told BI ...