At least 112 dead in US and Israeli attacks on Iran’s Kurdistan province, and 969 wounded, local officials say.
Posted on March 14, 2026
At least 112 people have been killed so far in US and Israeli attacks on Iran’s Kurdistan province, according to a local official cited by state media, a dark turn as Washington encourages Iranian Kurdish forces across the border in Iraq to launch a ground operation in Iran.
The head of the Kurdistan Provincial Emergency Department said on Friday that at least 969 people were injured in the attacks.
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Currently 27 people are hospitalized in standard wards and five in intensive care units, added the official, who was not identified.
The Kurds are an ethnic minority indigenous to the Mesopotamian region, distributed mainly in southeast Turkiye, northeast Syria, the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, northwest Iran and southwest Armenia, sharing a distinct language and culture but lacking a state of their own.
They are also estimated to represent almost 10 percent of Iran’s population, although no official figure exists.
The US and Israeli strikes on Iran’s Kurdistan province come amid speculation that President Donald Trump has been in direct talks with Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups, and that Washington intends to use them militarily on the ground to help spark a popular uprising.
However, Trump said last week that he did not want the Kurds to launch an offensive against Iran, saying the United States did not want to “make the war more complex than it already is.”
Iranian Kurdish opposition movements, many of which maintain close relations with Iraqi Kurdish factions, have long resisted Tehran while operating from bases in northern Iraq and areas along the Iran-Iraq border. Together, these groups are estimated to have several thousand combatants.
Last week, Iranian forces launched an operation against Kurdish groups in their semi-autonomous region of neighboring Iraq.
The Iraqi Kurdish regional government has denied involvement in any plan to arm Kurdish groups and send them to Iran.
