Drones pose additional security threats, challenges for Iraq
With drones flying the Iraqi skies for illegal purposes, security authorities face a host of new challenges.
BAGHDAD — In addition to the challenges Iraqi security forces have faced over the years, they now also strive to get control of the new security challenges caused by drones.
The Babil Police Command announced Feb. 18 the seizure of nine drones as well as legal measures being taken against the drones' operators in Babil governorate.
“Within the framework of the security plan prepared to track and reconnaissance the possession and use of illegal drones, the anti-crime detachments were able to seize [eight] drones of different types and arrested two of their [operators] in the city of Hilla," the command statement read.
On Feb. 13, Shafaq News quoted a source in the US-led coalition as saying that a drone was shot down after it entered the border at Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
