First Thing: airstrikes hit Iran-Iraq border as US and Israeli plans to mobilise Kurds gathers pace

A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran inspects a damaged building after an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Photograph: Safin Hamid/AFP/Getty Images

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Intense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran’s border with Iraq, in what appeared to be preparation by the US and Israel for a new front as their war entered its sixth day.