Baghdad orders probe after drone targets Kurdistan president’s home

BAGHDAD: A drone attack targeted the home of the president of Iraq’s ​Kurdistan Region early on Saturday, security sources said, in an incident that comes as tensions continue to rise across northern Iraq.
Air defenses also shot down a drone near a Peshmerga fighters’ base in Duhok, the sources ‌added.
The strikes ‌come amid a surge ​in ‌attacks ⁠on ​both Iran-aligned militias ⁠and Kurdish forces as the US-Israeli war against Iran spills over into Iraq, drawing in multiple armed groups and straining Baghdad’s efforts to contain the fallout.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani ⁠condemned the attack on Kurdish President ‌Nechirvan Barzani’s home ‌and spoke with him by ​phone, his ‌office said.
Sudani ordered the creation of ‌a joint federal-Kurdistan security and technical team to investigate the incidents and identify those responsible, the statement added.
Airstrikes have been targeting sites ‌belonging to Iraq’s umbrella group for Iran-backed Shiite militias, the Popular Mobilization ⁠Forces, ⁠and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq’s Kurdistan since the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
Iraq’s military accused the US and Israel of carrying out some of the airstrikes on the PMF.
Tehran-backed armed groups have also launched attacks on US bases in Iraq and the US embassy.