EXPLOSIVE-LADEN drones were launched at a military base hosting US forces inside Erbil International Airport in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq today.

The attack, one of several on US forces in the space of a week, caused the closure and evacuation of the airport. Footage showed fire services struggling to contain a large fire at the site of the drone strike.

No details of casualties or the extent of the damage were available, but the Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service confirmed that the attack was carried out with “two booby-trapped drones.”