Thousands of Kurdish fighters reportedly crossed Iraq’s border with Iran on Wednesday as part of a ground offensive against the Iranian regime.
US and Israeli officials confirmed the military campaign, according to Fox News and The Jerusalem Post.
A member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan PDKI stands at a checkpoint leading to their base in the Koya district of Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. AP
Iraqi Kurds inspect the damage to their homes, after a drone attack struck their neighbourhood in Irbil, Iraq, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. APA top official in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq vehemently denied that “Iraqi” Kurds were involved in the offensive.
“Not a single Iraqi Kurd has crossed the border. This is patently false,” Aziz Ahmad, the deputy chief of staff to the prime minister of Kurdistan, wrote on X.
Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspect damage sustained at the Azadi camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), in the east of Arbil district in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on March 3, 2026. AFP via Getty ImagesIranian Kurdish groups, operating from territory along the Iraq-Iran border, are involved in the ground incursion, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The groups maintain thousands of fighters, according to the outlet, and had been preparing in recent days for a ground offensive aimed at pressuring Iranian security forces and dispersing them across the country.
The incursion may have actually started earlier this week.
