Iraq seizes drone launch platform used in attack on Saudi oil pipeline

According to Iraq's state-run news agency INA, as reported by Al Jazeera, Lieutenant General Saad Maan, head of Iraq's Security Media Cell, said on Saturday, September 12, 2026, that Iraqi security and intelligence forces had located and seized the drone-launching equipment used in a strike on Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline. He said Iraq's commander-in-chief had approved an Iranian request to join the investigation and review its findings, and that Baghdad was sharing intelligence directly with Saudi authorities. Saudi authorities had traced the launch site to Maysan province in southeastern Iraq, near the Iranian border. The pipeline, which carries about 4 to 5 percent of global oil supply and lets Saudi Arabia bypass the Strait of Hormuz, had been shut down as a precaution after the preceding Thursday's attack.