American warplanes to station in northern Iraq

U.S. combat aircraft will soon be flying out from an air base in Erbil, capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region.

Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby confirmed these will be armed and manned aircraft instead of drones.

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