Booby-trapped drone crashes near airbase in Iraq's Kurdistan region

BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- A booby-trapped drone crashed on Wednesday near an airbase housing U.S. military experts and agencies in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, the regional Counter-Terrorism Service said in a statement.

The drone crashed and detonated at 12:18 local time (0918 GMT) in an open area near Harir airbase outside the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, without causing casualt