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Iran strikes Kurdish Iranian group in Iraqi territory

Iran sometimes targets the positions of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and other Kurdish Iranian groups based across the border in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

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Iranian Kurdish peshmerga, members of the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party, take part in routine military exercise in Koya, 100 kilometers east of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Oct. 22, 2017. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images

A Kurdish group from Iran said Iranian forces struck its positions in Iraq today.

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan said Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired missiles at their bases in a mountainous area near the border. There was material damage but no casualties, the party said in a tweet today.

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