JAKARTA - The United States (US) has asked for help from the Kurdish group in the war against Iran. The Kurds who live in a number of points in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, have been recorded as rebel militias until they are labeled terrorists.
According to a report by The Washington Post, US President Donald Trump offered military support, including air cover, to Kurdish groups if they agreed to attack and seize parts of western Iran
"He told us that the Kurds had to choose sides in this battle - either with the Americans and Israelis or with Iran," a Kurdish official who spoke anonymously to The Washington Post this week said.
Previously, the US media, Axios, also reported that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence agency, in cooperation with Israeli spies, was preparing a number of Kurdish groups to launch a ground offensive in northern Iran.
On Wednesday, March 4, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump had spoken to Kurdish leaders. However, Leavitt said Trump did not approve of a Kurdish operation plan to attack Iran.
According to him, Trump's discussion with Kurdish leaders revolved around the US military base in northern Iraq.
The same thing was also said by the Kurdish group in Iraq who denied the news that they were preparing to attack northern Iran through the land route. The denial was made by a source from the largest Kurdish party in Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
According to sources, news from pro-US media regarding the Kurdish group armed by the US against Iran is not true. Sources say that Kurdish opposition parties are unarmed. They have also signed an agreement not to attack Iran.
The Kurds have many groups and organized parts of the Turkish or Iranian opposition that are fragmented.
Based on research by the think tank CFR, the Kurdish population in the Middle East reaches 30 million people.
In Turkey, Kurds make up one-fifth of the population and have a group called the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founded in 1978.
The PKK has waged an insurgency from southeast Turkey since 1984. The Turkish government calls the PKK a terrorist organization for continuing to undermine the country's sovereignty. The Turkish-Kurdish conflict has also killed nearly 40 thousand people.
Meanwhile in Iraq, the PKK has a network of military posts, which the US also used to help Iraqi Kurds seize and establish a semi-autonomous federal region in 1992.
The presence of Kurdish armed organizations in Syria is also being fought by Turkey. Syrian Kurds such as the People's Protection Units (YPG) were formed thanks to the support of the PKK. YPG is part of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which was formed in 2015 to fight the Islamic State (IS) group.
The close relationship between the YPG and the PKK, makes Turkey regard the YPG and SDF as terrorist organizations. Since 2016, the United States has worked closely with the SDF in Syria.
In mid-2025, the PKK had the option of disbanding. However, they provided for demobilization and disarmament, so that PKK fighters and members were given amnesty.
The US-Israel suddenly launched a large-scale military operation against Iran on Saturday, February 28, amid US-Iranian nuclear talks mediated by Oman planned to enter the fourth round in early March 2026.
Major Iranian cities, including Tehran, were the target of the first US-Israeli attack.
As a result of the attack, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several other senior figures were declared dead.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced a retaliatory operation, targeting locations in Israel. US military bases in the Middle East such as in Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia were also targeted by Iran.
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