Why are Kurdish groups in Iraq being attacked amid the US-Iran flare-up?

Why are Kurdish groups in Iraq being attacked amid the US-Iran flare-up? Submitted by Alex MacDonald on Thu, 07/30/2026 - 13:16 Dozens of Iranian Kurds have been killed following Israeli reports of a planned operation to overthrow the government Female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters affiliated with Iran's separatist Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) are pictured at a base in an undisclosed location in Erbil province, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on 1 December 2022 (Safin Hamid / AFP) Off A