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Al-Harir Air Base: Shaqlawa: Erbil (Kurdistan Region) 2003 Still in use by U.S. forces as of January 2024 ... Handed over to Iraqi Air Force on Nov 8, 2011
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 .
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.
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.
On 20 October, the US ordered all non-emergency staff to leave their embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Erbil. [44] On 20 November, eight US and coalition soldiers were injured from a ballistic missile attack, and there was minor infrastructural damage after the air base was attacked by a ballistic missile. [45]
By 13 April, the U.S. had installed and activated Patriot air defense systems which have anti-ballistic missile capabilities, an Army C-RAM system, and an AN/TWQ-1 Avenger at Al Asad Airbase and the base at Erbil, and at Camp Taji, after gradually moving the systems into Iraq since the attack. [18]
Land air bases used by anti-ISIL air forces. Area occupied by ISIL as of 21 October 2015. This is the Military intervention against ISIL aerial order of battle, which lists the American forces and allies aerial assets that have taken part in the Military intervention against ISIL between June 2014 and the present day.