More Than 50 Confirmed Strikes on Iranian Kurdish Party Sites in the Kurdistan Region
Iranian Kurdish opposition party sites in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have been struck more than 50 times since the war began on February 28, according to tracking by The National Context. The attacks have targeted the headquarters, training facilities, weapons depots, and refugee camps of five parties belonging to the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan: the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI), the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the Organisation of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle (Khabat), the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, and Komala CPI. The only CPFIK member not confirmed struck is the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK).
The strikes come from two distinct sources. Many have been carried out directly by the IRGC using ballistic missiles and suicide drones. But a significant number have been launched by pro-Iran Iraqi armed factions operating under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilisation Forces, groups such as Saraya Awliya al-Dam, Ashab al-Kahf, and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which have claimed responsibility for waves of attacks on the Kurdistan Region. Distinguishing between Iranian and Iraqi-faction strikes on party sites is not always possible from open reporting, and some strikes remain unclaimed.
Community Peacemaker Teams, a human rights organisation monitoring the war’s impact on the ground, documented 43 attacks on Iranian Kurdish party headquarters between February 28 and March 8. That figure is broadly consistent with The National Context’s tracking. Confirmed strikes on party sites continued after March 8, including repeated hits on the Koya KDPI cluster, a Komala camp near Sulaimaniyah, PAK bases, and a Khabat position in Nineveh, bringing the total above 50.
By March 13, Rudaw’s broader monitoring put the total number of drones and missiles striking the Kurdistan Region at 294, with six killed and 35 wounded across all target categories. The party-specific subset is what this article tracks.
The dead and wounded
Five members of Iranian Kurdish opposition parties have been confirmed killed in individually sourced strikes through March 13:
Jalal Rashidi (nom de guerre Kawan), a PAK Peshmerga from Saqqez, killed on March 4 when two missiles struck the PAK base at Degala in Erbil province.
Ismail Rahimi (nom de guerre Ako), a Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan Peshmerga from Saqqez, killed on March 7 in a missile strike on the Zrgwezala camp near Sulaimaniyah.
Omid Feysi (nom de guerre Omid Ravansar), a Komala Peshmerga from Ravansar in Kermanshah province, killed on March 11 in an explosive drone strike on the same Zrgwezala camp.
Iqbal Salehi, a Khabat Peshmerga from Saqqez, and Fakhr al-Din Moradi, a Khabat Peshmerga from Sanandaj, killed on March 13 when a drone struck the Khabat base at Bashik heights in Nineveh province. This was the deadliest single confirmed strike on any Iranian Kurdish party site in the campaign.
In addition to the five dead, at least 19 party-affiliated fighters and civilians have been wounded. The wounded include PAK Peshmerga at Degala, Komala fighters at Zrgwezala, Khabat members at both Rizgari and Bashik, a KDPI nurse at Azadi Camp, and three civilians from western Iran at the Zawi Spi refugee camp near Koya.
Who has been hit
KDPI has absorbed the most sustained bombardment, with at least 11 individually confirmed strikes. The Koya district cluster accounts for the bulk. Azadi Camp alone, which houses KDPI members and families alongside a hospital and weapons depot, has been hit on at least five confirmed occasions: March 1, 3, 5, 6, and 13. Other confirmed KDPI targets include Amiriya camp, where the hospital was hit on March 4 after evacuation; the Harmota training facility, struck on March 6; the Zawi Spi refugee camp, struck on March 12 and wounding three civilians; and positions in the Akoyan Valley and Saraw area, both hit on March 13. No KDPI members have been confirmed killed. At least four have been wounded.
PAK bases have been under repeated attack since the first night of the war. Two bases at Pirde and a facility at Gomaspan were struck on March 2. The Degala base was hit on March 4, killing Jalal Rashidi and wounding three. A further strike on March 6 wounded four at an unspecified PAK base. PAK itself stated its bases had been targeted at least seven times by that point. The confirmed toll is one killed and seven wounded.
Khabat was struck at its Rizgari headquarters on March 5, lightly wounding two. The March 13 drone strike on Bashik killed two and wounded four. The confirmed toll is two killed and six wounded.
Komala factions have been struck at least four times, the figure Komala’s media coordinator gave Rudaw on March 11. Komala CPI’s Surdash camp in Dukan was hit on March 6 with no casualties. A separate IRGC missile strike on a Komala CPI headquarters near Sulaimaniyah was reported on March 5, with at least five missiles fired but no casualties. The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan’s Zrgwezala camp was struck by missiles on March 7, killing Ismail Rahimi, and by explosive drones on March 11, killing Omid Feysi. The confirmed toll is two killed and at least two wounded.