Lawmakers from the Kurdistan Region's ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), along with the opposition New Generation Movement (NGM), did not attend the Iraqi parliament's extraordinary session on Monday, July 20th, which addressed recent drone strikes targeting the Kurdistan Region, according to a Rudaw reporter. This absence follows statements from a Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi parliament on Monday, who asserted that the Iraqi government lacks control over armed groups responsible for the recent drone attacks. The lawmaker accused “external agendas” of exacerbating tensions between Erbil and Baghdad, as reported by Rudaw. Further details regarding the specific drone strikes or the agenda of the extraordinary parliamentary session were not immediately available.
