{"id":26247,"date":"2026-03-19T07:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/26247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:49:06","slug":"drone-strike-sparks-fire-at-iraq-naval-base-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/26247\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone strike sparks fire at Iraq naval base &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"152\">A fire broke out at a naval base in southern Iraq after a drone struck the facility overnight, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/3\/19\/iran-war-live-qatar-saudi-energy-sites-attacked-riyadh-says-trust-gone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"313\">An Iraqi security source said that the drone crashed into a water treatment station at the Umm Qasr naval base, located near the border with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/two-medics-wounded-by-shrapnel-in-kuwait\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuwait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"450\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Footage circulating on social media shows flames and thick smoke rising from the site following the impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0645\u0635\u0627\u062f\u0631 \u0623\u0645\u0646\u064a\u0629: \u0647\u062c\u0648\u0645 \u0628\u0637\u0627\u0626\u0631\u0629 \u0645\u0633\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u0627\u0639\u062f\u0629 \u062a\u0627\u0628\u0639\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u0642\u0648\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062d\u0631\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a\u0629 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0642\u0631\u0628 \u0645\u0646 \u0645\u064a\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0623\u0645 \u0642\u0635\u0631 \u0648\u0644\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0628\u0627\u0621 \u0639\u0646 \u0648\u0642\u0648\u0639 \u0625\u0635\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a \u0623\u0648 \u0623\u0636\u0631\u0627\u0631<\/p>\n<p>\u062a\u0627\u0628\u0639\u0648\u0646\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u062a\u064a\u0644\u063a\u0631\u0627\u0645: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xx4hh8LPGe\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/xx4hh8LPGe<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1_UTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631_UTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aaLMxUmKdV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aaLMxUmKdV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Utv (@UtvIraq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtvIraq\/status\/2034390917432385628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out at a naval base in southern Iraq after a drone struck the facility overnight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1798,3779,94,12481],"class_list":{"0":"post-26247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-drone-strike","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-naval-base"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116254747293813747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247","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=26247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}