(Previous Incident Code: ISIRQ260303a )

During the morning of Tuesday, 3 March 2026, one person was injured in an alleged Iranian drone attack on the Azadi camp, housing refugees from Iranian Kurdistan, in the Koya district of Erbil governorate, Iraq.

Al Jazeera reported the incident as urgent at 9:02 a.m. on its Facebook account, quoting a local official in the Erbil governorate as reporting that one person was injured by an attack “involving three drones” in the Azadi camp. ​Tariq al-Haidari, the mayor of Koya district, stated that one drone directly struck the hospital within the camp, while another “targeted” an ammunition depot, causing a large fire and secondary explosions. Al-Haidari noted that only one minor injury was reported, attributing the limited casualties to preemptive evacuation measures taken before the attack.

​Local media outlets, including Kurdistan24, documented the incident with footage showing smoke rising from the site and reported that “the Azadi camp in Koya was attacked by three drones.” Basnews Arabic also reported that three drones had been involved in the attack, but claimed that “the attack injured one person.” Other sources, including Rudaw, reported one injury as well.

On Facebook, @Derkamine Derkane Hamko reported at 12:19 p.m. an attack for the second time in the day on the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) in Koya, including the media center in Camp Azadi, leading to one injury. It is unclear if the injury refers to this incident or a separate incident.

According to Ronahi news outlet, the Azadi camp “houses members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and their families displaced from eastern Kurdistan.”

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the drone strike to the Iranian military.