Overview
- General Saad Maan confirmed a drone targeted the Iraqi National Intelligence Service headquarters in Baghdad’s Mansour district at about 10am local time.
- The intelligence agency said an officer was killed, and a security official said the drone struck a communications building used by a unit that works with US advisers.
- A second drone believed to be filming crashed into a private members’ sports club frequented by Iraqi elites and foreign diplomats, according to security sources.
- Hours earlier, at least three drones targeted a US diplomatic and logistics hub at Baghdad International Airport, with one security official reporting a fire near the base after the third strike.
- The incidents follow a fatal strike on a northern Iraq airfield reported by Hashed al-Shaabi and come after the Pentagon acknowledged helicopter strikes on pro-Iran armed groups this week.