Drone Strikes Hit Iraq's Kurdistan Region

0:00On March 28th, a drone hit the home of Nikirban Barzani, president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, early Saturday morning, March 29th. Security sources say air defense is also to down another drone near a peshmerga base in Doohak that same night. These strikes fit into a bigger wave of attacks on Iran, backed militias and Kurdish forces up north. It's all tied to the U.S. and Israeli operations against Iran, spilling over into Iraq, pulling in various armed groups. Iraq's prime minister Muhammad Shia Al-Sadani quickly condemned the attack on Barzani's place and gave him a call. He stressed how this ramps up tensions across the region. Sudanese ordered a joint team from federal and Kurdistan security to dig into both incidents and track down whose behind them. Meanwhile, air strikes keep hitting sites linked to Iraq's popular mobilization forces and peshmerga fighters. Iraq's military points fingers at the U.S. and Israel for some of those PMF strikes, while Tehran back groups fire back at U.S. bases and the Embassy in Baghdad,

1:04leaving the government scrambling to hold things together. That wraps global news today, brought to you with AI. I'm Corey with The Story.