This was reported by Al Sumaria TV channel.

“Iraqi air defenses repelled an attempt to penetrate drones into the airspace over the city of Samarra in the province of Salah al-Din,” the report says.

Earlier it was reported that in the east of Iraq, a large-scale operation of the Iraqi security forces against militants of the terrorist group "Islamic State" * began.

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"Islamic State" (IS) - an organization recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.