Turkey, Iran Strike Kurdish Groups Amid Concern of Widening Conflict

Turkish military vehicles enter Syria to take part in a joint patrol with Russian troops, in the countryside of the town of Derbassiye in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, on the border with Turkey, on July 14, 2021. Delil Souleiman/ AFP via Getty Images

ISTANBUL—Turkey has ramped up its cross-border strikes on Kurdish YPG militants in Syria and Iraq, while Iran struck dissident groups in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region last week.

Russia and the United States, both of which maintain troops in Syria, have called on Turkey to show restraint amid concern about widening conflict in the region.