Drones target office of Iraqi Kurdistan's PM, no casualties reported

Two drones targeted the office of the Kurdistan ​Regional Government’s Prime Minister in northern Iraq on ‌Monday (August 17, 2026) but there were no reports of ​any casualties, the KRG security agency ⁠said.

The attack was rolled out from Iranian territory, it said in an official note, without clarifying whether the ‌drones had hit their target. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from ‌any group for the attack.

Iran and Iran-backed ‌armed ⁠groups have repeatedly accused Iraq’s semi-autonomous ⁠Kurdistan region of harbouring Iranian Kurdish opposition groups that Tehran regards as a security threat. Iraqi Kurdish authorities deny ​allowing their territory to ‌be used to threaten neighbouring countries. “I condemn these reckless and unacceptable attacks in the strongest terms,” Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said ‌on X, describing them as a dangerous ​escalation and a direct threat to the region’s security and stability.

Mr. Barzani said his ⁠personal office and the home of the head of the region’s Security and Intelligence Agency ‌had been targeted, citing an investigation by the Kurdistan Counter Terrorism Unit. Iraq’s Kurdistan region has been repeatedly targeted by drones and rockets. A four-day wave of drone attacks on its oilfields in July 2025 halted nearly ‌half of the region’s crude production, with security office-holders ​pointing to Iran-backed militias as the likely perpetrators. In April 2024, a drone ⁠attack on the Khor Mor gas field, one ⁠of the largest in the Kurdistan region, killed four Yemeni workers, injured two others ‌and forced the suspension of gas supplies to regional power plants.