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Iran has intensified its internal security measures, including mass arrests and executions, especially targeting Kurdish regions, amid heightened tensions following Israeli airstrikes, with authorities focusing on preventing internal unrest and suspected infiltration by foreign agents.
Iran has intensified its internal security crackdown following recent Israeli airstrikes, with mass arrests, military deployments, and checkpoints, especially targeting Kurdish areas and suspected opposition groups, amid concerns of internal unrest and external threats.
Iraq has demanded an apology from Turkey over an attack on an airport in the country's northern Kurdish region. A US official confirmed that the attack was on a convoy with US military personnel in the area but said there were no casualties. Turkey has conducted several military operations including air raids in northern Iraq and northern Syria against Kurdish-led forces there. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is backed by the United States, said in a statement on Saturday that its leader, Mazloum Abdi, was at the Sulaimaniyah airport at the time of the attack but "no harm was done".