{"id":9014,"date":"2026-03-08T06:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/9014\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:42:09","slug":"drone-strikes-un-building-in-iraq-security-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/9014\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone strikes UN building in Iraq, security sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

A drone struck on Saturday a UN building in Sulaymaniyah in northeastern Iraq, the second-largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan, security sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Iraq has recently become a target of interest for Iran since Kurdish opposition groups began a ground offensive against Iran near the Iraqi border<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The groups maintain thousands of fighters, and are considered one of the most prominent armed opposition groups confronting the regime in Tehran.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Iran targets US, Israeli sites in Gulf states<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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)<\/p>\n

Debris from an intercepted drone damaged an Abu Dhabi complex housing the Israeli embassy<\/a> and several other international missions. The attack prompted a worldwide shortage of Israeli embassies on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Additionally, an Iranian terror plot on the Israeli embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, was foiled on Friday, days after an Iranian drone strike<\/a> on the country\u2019s exclave of Nakhchivan.<\/p>\n

Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi threatened on Wednesday<\/a> that all Israeli embassies around the world would become targets in the event of an Israeli strike on Iran’s embassy in Beirut.<\/p>\n

Iran has reiterated that its attacks aren’t aimed at Gulf states themselves, but rather at US and Israeli targets of interest<\/a> hosted on their territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq has recently become a target of interest for Iran since Kurdish opposition groups began a ground offensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1798,43,34,3306,94,5543,5541,5542],"class_list":{"0":"post-9014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-drone-strike","9":"tag-drone-strikes","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iranian-kurdish","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-israeli-embassy","14":"tag-security-sources","15":"tag-sulaymaniyah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116192198306437888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}