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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey launched fresh air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Syria and Iraq overnight, killing 59 militants, in response to a gun attack that killed ...
After U.S. forces shot down a Turkish drone in northern Syria on Thursday, Turkey confirmed the incident but assigned no blame, indicating it may want to contain any tensions with its NATO ally ...
Turkey often launches strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq it believes to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a banned Kurdish separatist group that has waged an ...
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]
The Defense Ministers of both the United States and Turkey held a call together to discuss the matter. [1] According to the Turkish Defence Minister, the US F-16 that destroyed the drone took off from Jordan and not from the US base at Incirlik, Turkey. [11] On 10 October, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, said : [12]
In the early morning of 25 April 2017, the Turkish Air Force conducted multiple airstrikes against media centers and headquarters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in northeastern Syria, and against positions of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) on Mount Sinjar, northwestern Iraq.
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. ...