![Un militaire français a été tué jeudi soir et six autres blessés dans une attaque de drone dans la région d’Erbil, au Kurdistan irakien. [Sedat Suna / GETTY IMAGES EUROPE / Getty Images via AFP]](/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=640,height=640,format=webp/https://storage.googleapis.com/uploads.mongoosehq.com/url/media/113007540/de2fc257a081cc05915337a23f196fb8f90348b652bba2e56bab5909351ebd31)
Overview
- Adjudant-chef Arnaud Frion of the 7th Alpine Chasseurs was killed by a Shahed-style drone at a Kurdish base near Erbil on the night of March 12–13, according to French authorities.
- Six other French soldiers were wounded and hospitalized in the same attack, with medical repatriations to France being organized.
- Pro-Iranian militia Ashab al-Kahf warned it would target French interests in Iraq and the region after the Charles de Gaulle carrier’s deployment, without claiming the strike and urging civilians to stay 500 meters from certain sites.
- France has not named a perpetrator and says its forces in Iraqi Kurdistan are deployed in a counterterrorism training role, with a technical investigation underway into the attack.
- U.S. Central Command separately reported a KC-135 tanker crash in western Iraq not attributed to hostile fire, as cross-border strikes and drone activity continue across the region.