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Late on April 15, an unidentified drone attacked a headquarters of the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU) near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
“An unidentified drone bombed the headquarters of the PMU’s 78th Regiment in Sinjar district, to the west of Mosul, and the incident resulted in the injury of the deputy commander of the regiment,” the PMU’s Nineveh Operations Command said in a statement.
The Sabereen News channel on Telegram shared photos showing the remains of two 60 mm mortar rounds which the drone dropped at the headquarters. Sources in the PMU told the news channel that the drone used in the attack was a modified DJI Matrice 600, which is commercially available.
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The drone attack may have been orchestrated by the US, the Israeli intelligence, or even by the security forces of the Kurdistan Region.
Exactly ten days earlier, an attack with Iranian-made rockets targeted an oil refinery in the district of Khabat in the Kurdistan Region. Kurdish sources blamed pro-Iranian factions for the attack.
In March, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a dozen ballistic missiles at an Erbil city, the capital of the Kurdistan Region. The guards said that the target was an Israeli intelligence center. However, Reuters said that the strike hit the villa of a Kurdish businessman involved in the Kurdistan region’s energy sector.
The drone attack on the PMU’s 78th Regiment will without a doubt add to the tensions between pro-Iranian factions and the Kurdistan Region.
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