Three drones strike PDKI camp north of Erbil
Shafaq News- Erbil (Updated on May 16 at 15:35)
Three drones struck the Jejnikan camp north of Erbil on Friday, targeting a site that houses civilian family members of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) fighters, a party official told Shafaq News.
One drone was intercepted and shot down. The other two crashed near the camp without causing casualties, according to Karim Barouzi.
In a statement, the PDKI attributed the attack to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which it accused of conducting a sustained campaign of suicide drone and ballistic missile strikes against party camps in the Kurdistan Region since the outbreak of war between the United States, Israel, and Iran on February 28, 2026. The party said Iranian strikes have now hit KDPI family camps and the party's medical and educational installations on close to 130 separate occasions.
Iran’s terrorist IRGC launched a new wave of suicide drones against the Jejnikan residential camp of the PDKI this morning. This marks the second such attack against Jejnikan within a three-day period.Jejnikan serves as civilian residential camp for PDKI members’ families.…
— PDKI (@PDKIenglish) May 15, 2026
Friday's attack was the second to target Jejnikan in three days.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) documented 809 drone and missile attacks against the Kurdistan Region between February 20 and April 20, 2026, leaving 20 people dead and 123 injured amid the escalation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran.
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