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Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Saturday, March 28, 2026
Blast heard near Iraq’s Erbil Airport; radar system at Kuwait Airport heavily damaged in drone attack
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleERBIL, Iraq — An explosion was heard this morning near the international airport of Erbil, a city in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, an AFP journalist reports and a witness says they saw smoke.
Erbil is home to a major US consulate complex, while its airport houses military advisors attached to a US-led international anti-jihadist coalition. Regular drone attacks by pro-Iran armed groups are usually intercepted by air defenses.
Additionally, the radar system at Kuwait’s international airport was heavily damaged in a drone attack today, Kuwaiti authorities say.
The attack on the tiny Gulf country caused no casualties, a civil aviation spokesperson tells Kuwait’s official news agency, but the radar system was badly damaged.
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