The Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party (PDKI), a Kurdish-Iranian formation, has reported a drone attack against a refugee camp located in the northeastern province of Erbil, in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The incident has not left any victims and, for the moment, the group has not pointed to any responsible party for the aggression, which occurred on the same day that the United States completed the withdrawal of its military forces from Iraq and declared the end of the international coalition that fought for twelve years against the Islamic State, more than two decades after the invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein.
"The attack was carried out by a drone around 8:15 PM," a senior official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) declared late Wednesday to the Kurdish news portal Rudaw.
After the impact of the device, "a fire has been declared near the Azadi camp, but no victims have been reported," indicated the PDK member, who placed the attack in the vicinity of the Koya district, within Iraqi Kurdistan. The official detailed that families of PDKI members reside in this camp.
According to data collected by Rudaw, since February 28, more than 164 missiles and drones have been launched against bases, headquarters, and camps of the PDKI in Kurdish territory. The Kurdish outlet estimates that more than 1,000 missiles and drones have been fired throughout Kurdistan since the beginning of hostilities between Iran and the United States on February 28, attacks in which at least 32 people have lost their lives and another 156 have been injured.
The PDKI is one of the main political and armed groups in this historically fragmented region between Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, the organization has carried out armed actions against Iranian authorities. Likewise, it supported the protests that began in late December 2025, considered among the most numerous and bloody of recent decades, and in February 2026 sealed an alliance with four other Kurdish parties to coordinate their political objectives and present a common front against Tehran.
In this specific episode, neither the PDKI has attributed the authorship of the attack to any actor nor have the Iranian authorities assumed any responsibility. However, in recent years Tehran has launched operations against separatist Kurdish groups in northwestern Iran and against their bases in northern Iraq, a campaign that has intensified following the offensive initiated in February by the United States and Israel, coinciding with the negotiations between Washington and the Islamic Republic to try to close a new nuclear agreement.
This new attack in Kurdish territory acquires special significance for occurring in parallel to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, completed this Wednesday. The departure of what has been one of the main allies of the Kurdish forces puts an end to the international coalition that fought against the Islamic State for twelve years, 23 years after the invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein.