The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the sources said.
Iranian Kurdish armed groups have thousands of forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border, primarily in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Several of the groups have released public statements since the beginning of the war hinting at imminent action and urging Iranian military forces to defect. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been striking Kurdish groups and said on Tuesday that it targeted Kurdish forces with dozens of drones.
They also armed the Soviets against the nazi’s and the Kurds against ISIS
Al Qaeda grew out of foreign volunteers that fought with the mujahedeen because they want a pan-islamist jihad. It’s because of this belief that they turned their attention towards the US after they started building an alliance with the sunni states in the Middle East (which also meant the latter de facto accepted Israel)
If you keep that in mind, you see there there aren’t really that many parallels