Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched missile and drone strikes targeting Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, killing at least one combatant on Monday.
The IRGC said in a statement that it had targeted “separatist anti-Iranian terrorist groups” since the morning with a series of “missile and drone attacks by the ground force of the Revolutionary Guards”.
“A member of the peshmerga was killed in an Iranian strike on the area of Koysinjaq,” Ali Boudaghi, an official from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDK-I), told AFP.
The party added in a statement that Koysinjaq, also known as Koya, and Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, were targeted with missiles and suicide drones.
“These indiscriminate attacks are occurring at a time when the terrorist regime of Iran is unable to stop the ongoing demonstrations in [Iranian] Kurdistan,” the PDK-I said.
The US Central Command condemned the “illegal” attacks on Monday.
“Such indiscriminate and illegal attacks place civilians at risk, violate Iraqi sovereignty, and jeopardize the hard-fought security and stability of Iraq and the Middle East,” General Michael Kurilla, commander of Centcom, said in a statement.
