US prohibits flights over Iraq, Iran and the Gulf
The US aviation authority has prohibited its civil flight operators from using the airspace over Iraq, Iran and the Gulf, hours after Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles targeting at least two American bases in response to the killing of its General Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike.
Iran has launched over a dozen ballistic missiles at 5:30 PM on January 7 (local time) targeting at least two bases where US military and coalition forces are stationed in Iraq.
Tensions between Tehran and the US escalated after the killing of Soleimani, commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, in a US drone strike, which was ordered by President Donald Trump, on Friday when he was leaving the Baghdad International Airport. The strike also killed the deputy chief of Iraq’s powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force.
