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Drone strikes Iraq's Umm Qasr naval base, leaving it ablaze VIDEO

19 March 2026 12:04

A fire broke out at the Umm Qasr naval base in southern Iraq after it was struck by a drone on the night of March 18 to 19.

An Iraqi security source told Al Jazeera that the unmanned aircraft hit a water treatment facility at the Umm Qasr naval base, located near the border with Kuwait.

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