Breaking News Archives - Glimpse from the Globe https://www.glimpsefromtheglobe.com/category/breaking-news/ Timely and Timeless News Center Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:22:33 +0000 en hourly 1 https://www.glimpsefromtheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-Layered-Logomark-1-32x32.png Breaking News Archives - Glimpse from the Globe https://www.glimpsefromtheglobe.com/category/breaking-news/ 32 32 Breaking News: CIA Reportedly Working to Arm Iranian Kurdish Opposition Groups https://www.glimpsefromtheglobe.com/breaking-news/breaking-news-cia-reportedly-working-to-arm-iranian-kurdish-opposition-groups-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-news-cia-reportedly-working-to-arm-iranian-kurdish-opposition-groups-2 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:05:19 +0000 https://www.glimpsefromtheglobe.com/?p=10645 The CIA has been working to arm Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, according to reporting by CNN on Tuesday, March 3. The effort appears aimed at opening a new front in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, which President Trump reportedly discussed on Sunday with Iraqi Kurdish leaders Masoud Barzani and Bafel Talabani. Trump also reportedly spoke […]

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]]> The CIA has been working to arm Iranian Kurdish opposition groups, according to reporting by CNN on Tuesday, March 3. The effort appears aimed at opening a new front in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, which President Trump reportedly discussed on Sunday with Iraqi Kurdish leaders Masoud Barzani and Bafel Talabani. Trump also reportedly spoke on Tuesday with Mustafa Hijri, the president of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI). Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and allied Shiite militias have struck Kurdish positions in Iraq with ballistic missiles and drones. Further escalating the situation, Israeli and American officials told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, March 4, that Kurdish forces had launched a ground offensive in western Iran. However, Abdullah Mohtadi, the secretary general of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, told The Free Press on Saturday, March 8, that reports of a new front were “greatly exaggerated.” Furthermore, President Trump on Saturday told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had ruled out Kurdish forces joining the war.
Iran’s Kurdish opposition groups are primarily based in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq whose leaders have long sheltered their Iranian counterparts. They have fought an intermittent insurgency against the Islamic Republic for decades, and are widely considered to be the most well-armed segment of the Iranian opposition. On Feb. 22, five Iranian Kurdish groups—including Hijri’s PDKI and a branch of Mohtadi’s Komala party—announced that they were forming a unified coalition against Tehran. However, the announcement sparked controversy among supporters of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last Shah, who on X posted a condemnation of “several separatist groups” operating in the region. The Trump administration’s reported strategy to arm the Kurds risks backfiring, potentially deepening ethnic fragmentation and weakening U.S. support within Iranian society. It could also spark internal conflict within Iraqi Kurdistan, whose regional government issued a statement distancing itself from any anti-Iranian activity the same day as the announcement.

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