12 Strikes on Iranian Kurdish Opposition Sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Since the April 8 Ceasefire
Since the April 8 US-Iran ceasefire, Iranian and Iran-aligned Iraqi militia attacks on Iranian Kurdish opposition sites in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have not stopped. There have been at least 12 direct drone and missile strikes on these groups’ positions between April 8 and April 23, concentrated mainly in Erbil and Sulaimani provinces: Surdash and Zirgwez in Sulaimani province, and Azadi camp near Koya, Balisan, Khalifan, Jezhnikan, Grdachal, and a PAK base in Erbil province. Some of these strikes caused only material damage, but others were deadly, including the April 14 attack in which one Komala Toilers fighter, Gazal Mawlan, was killed and another was wounded; the April 17 attacks on KDPI sites in Erbil province, in which two KDPI fighters, Nada Miri and Samira Allayari, were killed in Khalifan; and the strike on a KDPI camp housing families, in which Shahin Azarbarzin was killed, reportedly as a non-combatant despite coming from a politically active family, while his father, Nader Azarbarzin, was seriously wounded. The April 22 strike on a PAK base also wounded five people.





