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2026-07-03 Iraq
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Iran hits Kurdish dissent groups with missiles, drones in Erbil province
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[Rudaw] Iran launched two missiles and two drones against bases associated with the Komala party and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) in the northeast of Erbil on Thursday, officials from both Kurdish Iranian opposition groups said. There were no reports of casualties.
“They [missiles and drones] came from Rojhelat [Kurdish areas in western Iran],” Salam Rashidi, a Komala commander, told Rudaw English, adding that two missiles managed to strike their base while one of the drones was intercepted by US air defenses stationed in a nearby airspace.
“The other drone hit the ground and exploded,” he added.
Commenting on the incident, a leadership member of the KDPI said the drone, which was not intercepted, crashed near their base. “A drone hit Alana Valley, where a KDPI is located,” he said.
Iran has intensified its strikes against Kurdish Iranian opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region since February 28, when the United States and Israel launched a military campaign against the country, triggering a regional conflict that lasted for nearly six weeks before Washington and Tehran agreeing to a ceasefire in early April.
Nevertheless, despite the truce - and its extension by a landmark memorandum of understanding on June 18 - Tehran and its aligned “Islamic Resistance of Iraq” have resumed their strikes on the Kurdish dissident groups.
“Our bases have been struck three times since the MoU,” the KDPI official confirmed to Rudaw, noting that the total attacks on their military and civilian units since late February have exceeded 140.
Based on Rudaw’s tracking, the Kurdistan Region has been hit with 16 drones and missiles in June. As for the total number of the strikes since the war, the Region has come under at least 880 strikes.
Thursday's strikes come as Iran has also begun engaging with the mobile forces of the Kurdish groups inside Kurdish areas of the country since Saturday.
Earlier in the day, KDPI reported the killing of six of its members near Piranshahr after they fell into “an ambush by a massive and well-prepared” force affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Other clashes also occurred in Mahabad, Baneh, and Paveh. Both sides have sustained casualties, with the IRGC confirming the killing of two senior Basij militia members on Monday.
Two drones strike KDPI base in Kurdistan Region, no casualties reported
[Rudaw] Two drones targeted a base belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) in Erbil's Degala sub-district late Wednesday, marking the latest in a series of attacks on Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region despite an ongoing ceasefire between Iran and the United States.
A member of the KDPI told Rudaw late Wednesday, "a short while ago, our party [base] in Degala was attacked by two drones."
"At that time, no Peshmerga were present at the targeted location, which is why the attack resulted in no casualties," the KDPI member said.
The attack comes as Iran has continued to target the headquarters and refugee camps of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in the Kurdistan Region, even after hostilities with the US and Israel eased.
According to Rudaw tracking, nearly 20 drones have targeted refugee camps and the headquarters of Iranian Kurdish parties across the Kurdistan Region over the past month alone.
The United States and Israel launched a widescale aerial campaign against Iran on February 28, striking thousands of targets across the country during six weeks of hostilities. Tehran responded with thousands of drone and missile attacks across the Middle East targeting alleged US assets.
Iran also intensified operations against Iranian Kurdish armed groups based in the Kurdistan Region, fearing they could exploit the conflict to incite or launch an armed rebellion in Iran's Kurdish border areas.
Attacks have continued intermittently despite a ceasefire and the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Washington and Tehran in mid-June aimed at extending a ceasefire framework first agreed upon in April.
According to Rudaw's records, the Kurdistan Region has been hit by at least 865 drones and missiles since late February, as total numbers continue to rise.
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