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September 9, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/09/08/world/middleeast/ap-ml-islamic-state-kurds-iran.html?_r=0

U.S. Trained Dissident Iranian Kurds

(AP-New York Times) An Iranian Kurdish group received military training from U.S. and European advisers as part of the international program backing Kurds in the war against the Islamic State in Iraq, the group's commander, Hussein Yazdanpana, told AP. The group, called the Kurdistan Freedom Party, is one of several Iranian Kurdish factions that have carried out attacks this year inside Iran. At the same time, the group has been fighting alongside Iraqi Kurds against Islamic State in northern Iraq. The government of the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous zone has called for a halt to any attacks into Iran by Kurds in Iraqi territory.

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