Iraq denies links to drone attack on Saudi oil plants
Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi says ‘Iraq is constitutionally committed to preventing any use of its soil to attack its neighbours’, – EPA pic, September 15, 2019.
BAGHDAD today denied any link to drone attacks on Saudi oil plants, after media speculation that the strikes were launched from Iraq despite being claimed by Yemeni rebels. The attacks early yesterday targeted two key oil installations, causing massive fires and taking out half of the kingdom’s vast oil output.
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