US EditionIran hits Kurdish groups in Iraq as conflict widens
- Iran launched missile and drone strikes against Kurdish group headquarters in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, targeting anti-Iran separatist groups.
- The strikes targeted bases near Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital, including groups like Komala, which Iran accuses of planning attacks inside Iran.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it fired three missiles hitting headquarters of Kurdish groups opposed to the Iranian revolution.
- The attacks follow long-standing Iranian accusations that armed Kurdish groups from Iraqi territory cause unrest in Iran's Kurdish regions, escalating regional tensions.
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Go claim to have attacked Kurdish groups in Iraq, which makes fear that the war in the Middle East will spread still further.
Iran's government has claimed Thursday to have launched a "preventive" operation against "separatist groups" supposedly preparing to "invade" Iranian territory from Iraq, after several days of attacks against Kurdish groups in the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. In addition, the Iranian army reportedly attacked the headquarters of Iranian Kurdish forces stationed in northern Iraq, according to the BBC.The Iranian Ministry of Intellige…
Iran claims to have again attacked Kurdish groups in Iraq.
Iraqi Kurdish militias in talks with Washington over Iran
Iran struck the Iraq-based headquarters of Kurdish opposition forces, amid reported discussions between the fighters and Washington over allying in the attack on Tehran. Kurds make up about a tenth of Iran’s population, and the ethnic group’s other national factions in Iraq and Syria have allied with the US in prior decades to fight those countries’ rulers. Senior Kurdish leaders denied having made any ground incursion into Iran thus far, but se…
Yesterday, several media outlets reported that a Kurdish ground offensive had begun in northwestern Iran. Meanwhile, the Kurdish Autonomous Region in northern Iraq says it is not involved.
Meanwhile, the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, said it had launched an attack against the bases of "anti-revolutionary Kurdish groups" in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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