US EditionIraqi Kurdish Groups Prepare Cross-Border Operation Against Iran Amid US Talks
Thousands of Iranian Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq prepare for a possible cross-border operation into Iran with U.S. officials reportedly seeking Kurdish support.
- On Wednesday, reports emerged that Kurdish militias launched a ground offensive into northwestern Iran from Iraq, with Fox News citing a U.S. official that thousands crossed the border.
- Returning fighters from Iraq were said to be Iranian Kurds reentering northwestern Iran, while Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan denied launching an incursion, Komala sources told Rudaw.
- Journalists and local sources said Barak Ravid reported a senior official from an Iranian-Kurdish faction denied reports of an ongoing ground offensive, and another Kurdish source denied the claim to Faytuks News.
- In Washington on Wednesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military is not arming an insurgency inside Iran, and Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, denied reports of arming Kurdish forces.
- The wider conflict has, according to reports, seen a ballistic missile fired from Iran shot down by the Turkish defence ministry as the wider Middle East conflict enters its sixth day.
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