Two blasts have been heard near the Erbil airport – which hosts advisers from the US-led anti-jihadist coalition – in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, an Agence France-Presse journalist said on Monday.

Axar.az informs that some hours earlier, air defence systems downed four missiles headed towards the US consulate in Erbil, a security source told AFP.

Local authorities also reported a separate deadly drone incident in a civilian area in the early hours of Tuesday.

The autonomous region’s Counter-Terrorism Service said a “bomb-laden drone coming from Iran” crashed into a home in the Dara Shakran subdistrict of Erbil province after midnight, killing a couple.