“At 19:20 (local time), an American unmanned aerial vehicle crashed near the Balad air base in Iraq,” the department told RIA Novosti.
It is clarified that the drone was shot down by Iraqi law enforcement officers.
There were no reports of casualties.
Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh earlier said that the number of attacks on American targets located in Iraq and Syria has increased to 140 since the deterioration of the situation in the Middle East region began.
On January 18, a US base near Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan was attacked by a drone.