ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran on Friday launched a drone attack targeting a base belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), the largest Iranian Kurdish dissident group, east of Erbil, the group said in a statement, adding that the assault was the fourth of its kind by Tehran on its bases this week.
"This morning, Friday, July 31, 2026, the Islamic Republic once again launched a drone attack on [Kurdistan] Democratic Party [of Iran] headquarters," the group said in a statement, detailing that the targeted base was located in the town of Koya and "was targeted by two drones."
"This is the fourth time that the Islamic Republic has targeted bases and headquarters" of the KDPI "within the span of this past week," the group added, further noting that since the outbreak of the Iran war in late February, Tehran has targeted the KDPI's "family camps, as well as its medical and educational centers, with more than 145 missiles and drones."
Earlier on Friday, another Iranian Kurdish opposition group, the Khabat Organization of Iranian Kurdistan (Khabat), said its base southwest of Erbil came under a drone attack in the early hours of the day, with the extent of damage still unknown.
The group is one of several Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region that Tehran considers separatist. The attack targeted the group's base in the Rizgari subdistrict, also known as Topzawa, in Erbil province's Khabat district.
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