BAGDHAD: A drone attack targeted Iraqi intelligence services in an upscale residential neighborhood in central Baghdad on Saturday morning, a senior security official said.
“A drone targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service in the Mansour district” at around 10:00 am local time (0700 GMT), General Saad Maan, head of the Iraqi government’s security media unit, said in a brief statement.
An Iraqi security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said earlier the attack targeted a “telecommunications building” with the National Intelligence Service, which cooperates with US advisers in Iraq as part of an international anti-militant coalition.
Another drone, filming the operation, crashed into a private members sports club popular with Iraqi elite and foreign diplomats, according to the same source.
Iraq has been unwillingly drawn into the regional conflict triggered by the US-Israel attack on its neighbor Iran on February 28.
