IRGC Drone Strikes and Shelling Extend to Mariwan Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacked mountainous and forested areas around Gowileh village in Mariwan’s Sarshiv district on Sunday morning, 18 October 2026, according to local reports. A resident said a military convoy equipped with artillery and drones arrived near the village at around 6:30 a.m. According to the account, the Dashti Mil area was first targeted with suicide drones, followed by heavy shelling. The attacks follow drone strikes and artillery fire in recent days in the Shaho mountains between Sarvabad and Paveh, as well as the Kalatrazan area of Sanandaj. In an earlier statement, the command of the Eastern Kurdistan Defence Units (YRK), PJAK’s armed wing, warned that it would take further action and exercise its “right to self-defence” if the IRGC continued to attack its fighters. At the time of writing, no information was available about possible clashes in the Gowileh area.