ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – A drone was downed in the Kurdistan Region’s city of Sulaimani on Thursday morning and crashed on a house, injuring a child, after the city was subjected to intense drone activity overnight.

A drone was intercepted and crashed in the city’s Qalawe neighborhood, falling on a house before reaching its target.

A child was wounded as a result, and damage was sustained to several houses, according to information obtained by The New Region’s reporter. 

The attack was a part of a series of aerial strikes in the provinces of Erbil and Sulaimani on late Wednesday that continued on early Thursday morning.

The Kurdistan Region has come under daily attacks, mainly by pro-Iran Iraqi militias, since the US and Israel launched war against Iran. 

Attacks on the Kurdistan Region have mainly targeted the US Consulate General in Erbil, US military bases, and bases of exiled Kurdish opposition groups from western Iran (Rojhelat), although hotels and Peshmerga bases have also been targeted in recent days.

Late Sunday, another drone was also downed in Sulaimani, with gunfire reportedly being heard at the headquarters of the Peshmerga’s Unit 70 Command, affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Another strike was thwarted hours later.

Sulaimani does not have an air defense system. The Unit 70 forces have been attempting to shoot down the drones using machine guns on pick-up trucks, with footage showing tracer bullets filling the night sky.

President Masoud Barzani on Sunday condemned as a “war crime” the repeated drone and rocket strikes by armed groups on the Kurdistan Region, warning that the Region’s patience has limits and calling for an end to the “warmongering” and attacks against stability.