ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran launched fresh missile and drone strikes on bases belonging to the Iranian Kurdish opposition group Komala in the Kurdistan Region early Monday, the party said on Monday, a day after nine of its members killed in an earlier attack were laid to rest.
Amjad Hussein Panahi, head of communications , said that missiles struck the group's headquarters in Alana valley in Erbil's Choman district shortly after midnight before two drones targeted another base in Surdash camp near Sulaimani about an hour later.
"Missile attacks have just targeted the headquarters of the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan in Alana valley" at 12:20 am, Panahi said in a statement.
In a later statement, Panahi said Iran carried out two more strikes against the group's headquarters in Surdash.
"In the continuation of attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Komala, tonight at 1:50 am, the headquarters of the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan in Surdash were attacked by drones for the second time," he said. "Additionally, at 1:55 am, a second drone struck the Komala headquarters in Surdash again."
The latest strikes came a day after nine members of the party, who were killed in an Iranian missile strike on the group's headquarters in Zirgwez near Sulaimani, were laid to rest on Sunday. The attack on Friday involved six missiles and left several others wounded.
Zirgwez, south of Sulaimani, hosts camps belonging to several Iranian Kurdish opposition groups.
According to Panahi, the latest attacks bring the total number of Iranian missile and drone strikes on the group's positions to "more than 93 missiles and drones" since the outbreak of the conflict between Iran and the US.
The renewed attacks come as fighting between Washington and Tehran persists despite diplomatic efforts to restore a ceasefire. Since the start of the conflict, which began on February 28, bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region have been repeatedly targeted by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated Iraqi militias.
The IRGC has long insisted that Iraq and the Kurdistan Region must disarm or expel Iranian Kurdish opposition groups from their territory, warning that it reserves the right to target them if if they pose a security threat.
Meanwhile, the broader US-Iran conflict has expanded across the region with both sides continuing to exchange strikes after negotiations collapsed.
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