Kordestan province, Iran: events and estimated deaths in August 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through 31 Aug 2026

UCDP recorded 1 eventP of organized violence in Kordestan province, Iran in August 2026. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 1P. UCDP does not count this death as the death of a civilianP. The count for July 2026 was 4 eventsP.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Iran, August 2026.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.
An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date
UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8, with data through 31 Aug 2026. The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.

Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Iran has each event.

Table 1. Kordestan province, August 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
Date	Place	Sides, as UCDP writes them	Type of violence	Estimated deathsP	Low	High
2 Aug 2026	Marivan county, Kordestan province	Government of Iran; PJAK	State-based	1	1	1

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Kordestan province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes it	Events	Estimated deaths in these events
Government of Iran	1P	1P
PJAK	1P	1P

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Kordestan province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
Month	Events	Estimated deaths	Dataset
August 2026	1P	1P	Candidate Events
July 2026	4P	9P	Candidate Events
June 2026	5P	6P	Candidate Events
March 2026	1P	3P	Candidate Events
September 2025	1	2	GED
July 2025	1	3	GED
June 2025	4	8	GED
April 2025	1	2	GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Kordestan province: all figures

Cite this page

ConflictStats. Kordestan province, Iran: events and estimated deaths in August 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/iran/kordestan-province/month/2026-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8. Data through 31 Aug 2026.

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