{"id":247134,"date":"2026-08-13T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247134\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:27:09","slug":"iraq-seizes-20-locally-made-drones-and-arrests-four-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247134\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq seizes 20 locally made drones and arrests four suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Iraq has seized 20 locally manufactured drones and arrested four people suspected of attempting to traffic them, the Interior Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were detained after security forces seized the drones during an operation, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/8\/13\/israeli-settlers-besiege-three-palestinian-families-in-occupied-west-bank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring interrogation, they confessed to possessing these drones for the purpose of trafficking them,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure comes as Baghdad steps up efforts to strengthen security and prevent its territory and airspace from being used to launch attacks against neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to preventing activities that could threaten neighboring states or draw <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/iraq-to-end-foreign-military-presence-by-october-1-says-pm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq<\/a> into regional conflicts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/aysel-mammadzada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Aysel Mammadzada<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq has seized 20 locally manufactured drones and arrested four people suspected of attempting to traffic them, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[16267,687,34,94],"class_list":["post-247134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-arrests","tag-drones","tag-iran","tag-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117086784281309323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}