ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraq’s interior ministry said on Tuesday that diplomatic missions in the country are “continuing their work” as normal, stressing that state institutions are protected despite the effects of the regional war.

"All diplomatic missions are continuing their work, and their dignity, premises, and institutions are protected,” Abbas al-Bahadli, spokesperson for Iraq’s interior ministry, told The New Region. 

Embassies and diplomatic facilities in Iraq, particularly the US Embassy in Baghdad, have come under constant drone and rocket attacks by Iran and its Iraqi proxy militias since the outbreak of the US-Israel war on Iran.

On March 20, the NATO Mission in Iraq said it has relocated all of its personnel to Europe due to the ongoing war, with a pro-Iran militia in Iraq pledging to continue strikes "until the last foreign soldier leaves Iraqi soil."

The Kurdistan Region has also come under near-daily attacks by pro-Iran militias, with Kurdish authorities repeatedly urging Baghdad to rein them in. 

The UAE Consulate General in Erbil has been struck twice by drones since the onset of the war; drawing condemnations from Kurdish and Emirati authorities.

A French soldier was killed after a strike on a Peshmerga base near Erbil earlier this month, with several injured, including a separate drone strike on a military site used by Italian forces in Erbil the night before that caused no casualties.