The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the sources said.

Iranian Kurdish armed groups have thousands of forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border, primarily in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Several of the groups have released public statements since the beginning of the war hinting at imminent action and urging Iranian military forces to defect. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been striking Kurdish groups and said on Tuesday that it targeted Kurdish forces with dozens of drones.

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    5 days ago

    How did arming the Kurds in Syria help against the Islamists? Isn’t the current president one?

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      5 days ago

      They were able to stop the advance of and largely defeat ISIS in that period in time

      The current president is indeed an islamist but he’s coming from Al-Nusra and was able to take over with arms and support from Turkey.

      Maybe they could have stopped those other islamists as well in the last couple of weeks if they would still have had support from the US ;-)