Drone targets Iraq's Taji military base, no casualties, state news agency says

 An unidentified drone targeted an army radar at Iraq's Taji military base north of Baghdad, the Iraqi state news agency reported early on Tuesday, citing a military official.

There were no casualties, the commander of Baghdad's operations said.

In 2020, the U.S.-led international coalition troops withdrew from the base and handed it over to Iraqi security forces. The base had historically held up to 2,000 coalition members.

The base, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, had been the site of frequent rocket attacks by Iran-backed militias targeting U.S.-led troops months before the withdrawal.

Another drone fell in the Radwaniya district, ten kilometres west of Baghdad International Airport, where US troops are deployed in a base as part of an anti-jihadist coalition, the source added.

A government security spokesman Saad Maan confirmed that at Taji "an unidentified drone struck the radar", adding that another drone "fell near a generator", without providing further details.

Lieutenant General Walid al-Tamimi told the official Iraqi News Agency that no casualties were reported.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.

The latest news comes after Iraqi security sources told news agency AFP that Iran had not attacked the main base hosting US troops in the country "so far", after the Islamic republic launched missiles at an American military facility in Qatar.

Iran's National Security Council said it had attacked the US base at Al Udeid -- its largest in the region -- in retaliation for American strikes on its nuclear facilities.

"There have been no attacks so far on Ain al-Assad," a major Iraqi airbase in Anbar province hosting American troops and other personnel from the US-led coalition against jihadists, said a security official in the province.

"We are monitoring the situation in case anything happens," the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

An unnamed military source in Baghdad told the news agency that "for the moment, Ain al-Assad has not been targeted", and neither had the base at Baghdad International Airport, where US troops are also deployed.

He added that the bases were "on security alert".

Likewise, no attacks were immediately reported at the military base of the anti-IS coalition at the airport in Arbil, the capital of the northern autonomous Kurdistan region.

Iran's official press agency IRNA had reported earlier that Iran launched missiles "against American bases located in Qatar and in Iraq".

But in its announcement of the attack on the base in Qatar, the National Security Council made no mention of Iraq.

US President Donald Trump announced Monday that Iran and Israel had agreed to a staggered ceasefire that would bring about an "official end" to their conflict, as strikes continued to hammer Tehran overnight.

There was however no immediate confirmation from either of the Middle Eastern adversaries, whose unprecedented exchange of attacks has seen hundreds killed in Iran and two dozen in Israel.

Trump said the ceasefire would be a phased 24-hour process beginning at around 0400 GMT Tuesday, with Iran unilaterally halting all operations. Israel would follow suit 12 hours later, the president said.