Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq February 12, 2026.
(photo credit: REUTERS/THAIER AL-SUDANI)

Iran carried out a drone attack on the office of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s prime minister’s office on August 17. The attack took place in the early hours and the autonomous KRG government quickly determined that Iran had used new jet-powered drones in the attack.