Iran drone and missile strike wounds nine at Kurdish opposition base

ERBIL — An Iranian drone and missile strike targeted a Kurdistan Freedom Party headquarters in the Chamsher area near Erbil late Monday, wounding nine Peshmerga fighters including four in critical condition, the group said.

“Tonight, with two drones and an Iranian missile, the Chamsher headquarters of the Kurdistan National Army was targeted in northwestern Erbil, near the Darashakran camp,” PAK said in a statement. No statement had been issued by Iranian authorities at the time of publication.

PAK is an Iranian Kurdish opposition party based in the Kurdistan Region that has previously accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of targeting its positions inside Iraq. Strikes against Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region have continued throughout 2026 despite a ceasefire reached in April following weeks of confrontation between Iran, the United States and Israel, with repeated attacks documented on camps belonging to PAK, KDPI and Komala in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah governorates.