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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 .
Iraq would later withdraw troops near the Kuwaiti border in response to a massive U.S. military build-up. However, this was marred by a friendly-fire incident on 14 April 1994 when two United States Air Force F-15 Eagle fighter planes mistakenly shot down two United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, killing 26 Coalition military and ...
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.
A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed ...
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.
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.
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]