As the U.S.-Iran cease-fire faltered in recent days, all eyes have been on violations in the Gulf. But even before hostiles resumed last week—when a truce between the two countries was nominally in place—breaches continued in the Kurdish regions of Iran and Iraq. It is unclear whether a renewed settlement would encompass these areas.

On June 16, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran had agreed to a framework to end their four-month war, an Iranian drone slammed into a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish group located in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. The attack hit part of a Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) compound where civilian families lived. No casualties were reported.

As the U.S.-Iran cease-fire faltered in recent days, all eyes have been on violations in the Gulf. But even before hostiles resumed last week—when a truce between the two countries was nominally in place—breaches continued in the Kurdish regions of Iran and Iraq. It is unclear whether a renewed settlement would encompass these areas.

On June 16, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran had agreed to a framework to end their four-month war, an Iranian drone slammed into a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish group located in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. The attack hit part of a Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) compound where civilian families lived. No casualties were reported.

The airstrike near Koya was a “clear violation of international humanitarian principles and demonstrates the continued threat faced by Kurdish opposition groups,” the PDKI said in a statement.

Eleven days later, a member of another Iranian Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), was found dead in a hotel room in Erbil, Iraq. The party alleges that Iran assassinated him. PDKI camps in the Kurdistan Region near Degala and Balisan were attacked on July 1 and 2, respectively. Inside Iran, six of the group’s fighters were killed in a July 1 clash with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the party reported. On July 13, three suspected Iranian drones struck a base belonging to the PAK north of Erbil, shortly after the United States launched a new wave of attacks on Iran’s Gulf coast.

Together, the attacks signal that Iraq’s Kurdistan Region seems to sit outside of the........

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