ANBAR — Iraqi Security forces have shot down two drones allegedly belonging to Islamic State (IS) in the west of the country.
On Saturday April 16, Ismael Mahlawi, an
army commander, revealed that his men shot down an IS surveillance
drone in Amriyah district of western Anbar province, using light and
standard arms only.
He also confirmed that they had
previously brought down another IS drone in the same area which was
surveying the Iraqi army movements.
A Kurdish Peshmerga commander previously
warned that IS insurgents, especially in their stronghold of Mosul,
have the technical capacity to develop ordinary drones into surveillance
drone to monitor Peshmerga and Iraqi forces’ positions.
The Peshmerga forces have also shot down few IS drones in northern Iraq.
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