Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi forces shoot down spy drone over Baghdad

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Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi forces shoot down spy drone over Baghdad

06PM [Updated: Thu Aug 22, 2019 06:18PM ]/ Iraq's pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, says it has shot down an unidentified spy drone over capital Baghdad. According to a statement by the PMU, carried by the Arabic-language al-Soumariah television network, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shot down “by the air defenses of the 12th Brigade of Hashd al-Sha’abi” while the reconnaissance aircraft was flying over the outskirts of the capital on Thursday evening. Earlier in the ...

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