On January 3, 2022, the second anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Suleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, there was a series of attacks incorporating loitering munitions and rocket fire by Iran-backed Shiite militias against US forces stationed near Baghdad International Airport, and Ayn al-Asad Air Force Base, in Al-Anbar Governorate, northwest of Baghdad, in central Iraq. Two different models of loitering munitions were used to attack the two targets.
While those used to attack the Ayn al-Asad Air Base were similar to models known from various arenas in which Iran-backed forces operate, another model documented after the Baghdad Airport attack is known exclusively from Iraq. This is a relatively new model that has thus far been documented in several attacks against US targets in Iraq during 2021.
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