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Turkey hit northern Iraq with air strikes on Monday and claimed to have killed 16 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) sheltering there. The Turkish defence ministry said the PKK ...
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. ...
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 ...
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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]
[15] [16] Turkish Air Force targeted the town of Makman in north west Deir ez-Zor Governorate. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] On 23 November clashes broke out between forces of the Manbij Military Council and forces of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army on the Jamousiya and Sayada fronts in the Manbij countryside. [ 3 ]
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which also injured 22 people
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.