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Reports: Iranian drone strikes Kurdish opposition targets in northern Iraq

The Zioneer Intelligence DeskUpdated 17:17
Reports: Iranian drone strikes Kurdish opposition targets in northern Iraq

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TL;DR

A drone, likely Iranian, struck Kurdish opposition targets near Erbil in northern Iraq, according to unverified reports. Details on casualties or damage are not yet available.

01 · THE DISPATCH

Unverified reports from the Erbil area in northern Iraq indicate that a drone, assessed as Iranian, struck positions of Kurdish opposition groups near the city. The attack was reported by a single security monitoring channel and is not yet independently confirmed. This follows a series of Iranian strikes against Iranian-Kurdish opposition bases in Iraqi Kurdistan over the past week, as The Zioneer previously reported. On June 10, Iranian Shahed-136 loitering munitions were launched toward Kurdish opposition groups in the same region, and on June 11, Iran claimed strikes on Kurdish opposition headquarters in Erbil. The current report, if confirmed, would continue the pattern of Iranian operations targeting Kurdish armed groups that it accuses of collaborating with Israel. No casualty figures or details on damage have emerged so far, and the claim remains unverified.

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