Drone strike targets Azadi Camp in Koya, no casualties reported

ERBIL — Loud explosions were heard on Thursday evening in Koya, Erbil, targeting Azadi Camp, according to local reports.

A security source told 964media that the drone strike caused no casualties.

“A drone fell near Azadi Camp, but the area had been evacuated and the necessary precautions were already in place, so no damage occurred,” the source said.

Azadi Camp has served as a residential area for families of Iranian Kurdish opposition Peshmerga fighters.

The strike is the latest in a series of attacks on Iranian Kurdish opposition bases across the Kurdistan Region. On Tuesday, three drones and a missile hit Camp Azadi and a weapons storage facility belonging to the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan in Koya district. The PDKI called the strike “a serious humanitarian and legal breach,” saying the targeting of a hospital “constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law.”

Several Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, now organized under the Alliance of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan, are based in the Kurdistan Region and have long opposed Tehran’s rule. The alliance was formed in anticipation for potential changes in Iran.