The following #explosion tumbled, west to east, across the night. The group - Christopher and some half-dozen #Kurdish businessmen gathered at a neighborhood mosque - paused their chat and looked up.
"Boom," said Salih Albarzinja, an Erbil businessman who owns one of the largest travel agencies in the region. His tone was casual and he sounded unfazed by the aerial #explosion of the drone that was likely targeting the U.S. #airbase next to Erbil's international #airport.