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Turkey’s military carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Sunday, just hours after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing ...
A security official said armed drones were used in Thursday’s strikes. On Wednesday, Turkey's air force carried out airstrikes against similar targets in northern Syria and northern Iraq, hours after government officials blamed the deadly attack at the headquarters of the aerospace and defense company TUSAS, on the PKK.
Turkey intensified its airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Syria and northern Iraq in retaliation for the deaths of 12 Turkish soldiers in Iraq over the weekend. The Turkish defense ministry said ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey said it had destroyed 23 targets in overnight air strikes on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria, a further escalation of conflict south of its border. The ...
The Kurdish-Turkish conflict spilled over into Iraqi Kurdistan in 1983, [8] and has continued there intermittently since. The Turkish Armed Forces has launched a series of operations in Northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). [9]
Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said, coming a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in ...
On 5 October 2023, the Turkish Air Force conducted 38 airstrikes in the Aleppo and Hasakah Governorates of Northern Syria, resulting in the deaths of 10 people. [13] During the airstrikes, the international coalition (CJTF–OIR) shot down an armed Turkish combat drone after it approached the coalition base near the town of Tal Baidar .
On August 24 2023, two Turkish drone strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan killed seven PKK insurgents, [1] this came at a time of political manoeuvres, when the Turkish foreign minister met with top Kurdish officials in Erbil. [2] This coincided with a political offensive by Turkey, who urged Iraq to recognise the PKK as a terrorist organisation. [1]