US air defences are intercepting missiles targeting Iranian Kurds, according to the Kurdish Freedom Party (PAK).
“The US has reinforced air defence systems in Erbil to protect the area, its forces and its allies,” PAK spokesperson Khalil Naderi told Middle East Eye.
“Though these defences are in operation, they haven’t fully met the requirements for aerial defences across Kurdistan. Last night, we lost one Kurdish peshmerga [fighter] and three others were wounded,” Naderi said.
Despite this, Iranian drone and missile attacks on a PAK base in Erbil province injured four people on Friday.
Based in exile in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, the PAK is part of a coalition of five major Iranian Kurdish opposition parties formed on 22 February, just a week before the US-Israeli war on Iran began.
