Kurdistan Diaspora Confederation Condemns "Terrifying" Predawn Drone Strikes on Pirmam, Demands Serious International Action
Kurdistan Diaspora organization calls attacks on KRG Prime Minister's office and security agency site a clear violation of international law and a dangerous threat to Kurdistan's stability, holding perpetrators fully accountable
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - The Kurdistan Diaspora Confederation issued a strong condemnation on Monday of the predawn drone strikes that targeted the private office of the Kurdistan Region's Prime Minister and the landing site of the Kurdistan Protection Agency Director in Pirmam district, describing the attacks as "terrifying" and demanding that the international community take a serious and practical stance to prevent their recurrence.
In an official statement, the confederation said: "We in the Kurdistan Diaspora Confederation announce that these attacks and aggressions against the legitimate and national institutions of the Kurdistan Region are a clear violation of international law and a dangerous signal for the destruction of coexistence and social and political stability in the Kurdistan Region."
The confederation held the perpetrators fully responsible for all legal and political consequences of the strikes, describing the targeting of official KRG institutions as a deliberate act that crosses every accepted boundary of international conduct. "The full legal and political responsibility for the consequences of this attack lies with those who carried it out," the statement read.
The organization called specifically on the international community to adopt a serious and practical position in the face of these boundary-crossing aggressions, in order to prevent the recurrence of such violations. It framed the strikes not merely as an attack on Kurdish governmental infrastructure but as a threat to the entire fabric of coexistence and stability that the Kurdistan Region has built across decades of difficult political and security conditions.
The condemnation from the Kurdistan Diaspora Confederation joins that of the Independent Human Rights Commission of the Kurdistan Region, which also issued a strong statement on Monday calling the attack a flagrant violation of Iraqi and Kurdistan Region sovereignty and a violation of all international norms and human rights principles. Both organizations called on the Iraqi federal government and the international community to respond with the urgency and seriousness the situation demands.
The strikes, launched from within Iranian borders at 00:28 a.m. Monday, came on the same day the 60-day US-Iran memorandum of understanding expired without a final deal, without an agreed extension, and without active negotiations, as The National confirmed on Sunday, August 16, 2026. They also followed a tense meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi and IRGC Quds Force Commander Ismail Qaani that ended with the Iranian delegation leaving in visible anger after al-Zaidi insisted weapons must be under state control and demanded that future Iranian visits go through proper diplomatic channels, two Kurdish government sources told Kurdistan 24 exclusively on Monday.
No casualties were reported from Monday's drone strikes, but the confederation's characterization of the attacks as terrifying reflects the cumulative psychological and political toll of hundreds of similar incidents on Kurdistan Region territory since the conflict began on Feb. 28, 2026, all absorbed by a region that has maintained strict neutrality throughout a war it neither initiated nor joined.