ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Nine fighters from the Iranian Kurdish opposition group Komala Toilers of Kurdistan were killed in missile strikes on the party's bases in Sulaimani's Zirgwezala early Friday, the party said in a statement.

The attack took place around 6 a.m. in the village of Zirgwezala in Sulaimani's Tanjaro subdistrict.

A member of the party's central committee initially told The New Region that eight fighters had been killed and three others injured.

The party later issued a statement confirming that nine members were killed in what it described as Iranian “intensive missile attacks.”

Following renewed tensions between Iran and the United States, the Kurdistan Region is once again being targeted by airstrikes focused on US interests and the bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups.

The Kurdistan Region's Counterterrorism Directorate said the US-led global coalition intercepted eight bomb-laden drones over Erbil early Friday, with no injuries reported.

The attack came two days after another eight bomb-laden drones targeted the capital late Wednesday, marking the first strike on the city since the collapse of the US-Iranian memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending the war.

However, intermittent attacks have continued to target Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region despite the ceasefire.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), another Iranian Kurdish opposition group, said in June that Tehran had carried out nearly 140 missile and drone strikes on Kurdish opposition positions since the outbreak of the war in late February.

In April, the alliance of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups condemned the repeated Iranian strikes on their bases in the Kurdistan Region, calling on the UN and the international community to take a stand against the attacks.

Updated at 12:40 am with a statement from Komala.