Iraq has recently become a target of interest for Iran since Kurdish opposition groups began a ground offensive against Iran near the Iraqi border on Wednesday.
A drone struck on Saturday a UN building in Sulaymaniyah in northeastern Iraq, the second-largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan, security sources told Reuters.
Iraq has recently become a target of interest for Iran since Kurdish opposition groups began a ground offensive against Iran near the Iraqi border on Wednesday.
The groups maintain thousands of fighters, and are considered one of the most prominent armed opposition groups confronting the regime in Tehran.
Early on Sunday, Iran launched an attack on an Iranian Kurdish opposition camp east of Sulaymaniyah that left one dead and two wounded, according to security sources.
Iran targets US, Israeli sites in Gulf states
Iran has launched numerous drone strikes on targets in Mideast countries since the war broke out last Saturday, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.
A fighter from the Iranian Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) takes part in a training exercise at a base near Erbil, Iraq February 12, 2026. (credit: THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS)
Debris from an intercepted drone damaged an Abu Dhabi complex housing the Israeli embassy and several other international missions. The attack prompted a worldwide shortage of Israeli embassies on Sunday.
Additionally, an Iranian terror plot on the Israeli embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, was foiled on Friday, days after an Iranian drone strike on the country’s exclave of Nakhchivan.
Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi threatened on Wednesday that all Israeli embassies around the world would become targets in the event of an Israeli strike on Iran’s embassy in Beirut.
Iran has reiterated that its attacks aren’t aimed at Gulf states themselves, but rather at US and Israeli targets of interest hosted on their territories.