Has Iraq failed to control drone movement? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mustafa Saadoun

Mustafa Saadoun

Aug 5, 2020

A picture taken on January 13, 2020, during a press tour organised by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group, shows US army drones at the Ain al-Asad airbase in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. - Iran last week launched a wave of missiles at the sprawling Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq and a base in Arbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, both hosting US and other foreign troops, in an operation it dubbed a response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the h — A picture taken during a press tour organized by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the Islamic State shows a US army drone at the Ain al-Asad air base in western Anbar province, Iraq, Jan. 13, 2020. — AYMAN HENNA/AFP via Getty Images

This picture taken on March 15, 2020, shows a drone being used by Iraqi health workers around the Imam Hussein Shrine in the central Iraqi holy shrine city of Karbala.

Drones pose additional security threats, challenges for Iraq

Mustafa Saadoun

Mustafa Saadoun

Employees display rifles for sale at a gun shop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on September 22, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Mustafa Saadoun

Mustafa Saadoun

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Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

A man drives a group of pupils to school in al-Qaim in the Iraqi Anbar province, opposite Albu Kamal in Syria's Deir Ezzor region, on November 13, 2018. - Iraqi troops have reinforced their positions along the porous frontier with neighbouring war-torn Syria, fearing a spillover from clashes there between the Islamic State (IS) group and US-backed forces. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Shelly Kittleson

Shelly Kittleson

In Baghdad, reporting on Iraqi politics