At least 7 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed On this Thursday, two attacks were carried out in Northern Iraq with the unmanned planes of the Turkish Army.
According to the Kurdish news agency Rudaw, the Kurdistan Regional Government stated that one of the attacks was against a vehicle in Erbil province, where an official and two fighters were killed. Later, four PKK members, two men and two women, were killed when a drone attacked a house in southern Iraqi Kurdistan. Witnesses consulted by the news agency said drones were still flying at the border.
Turkey announced the start of a campaign in mid-April 2022. New attack on PKK in Iraqi KurdistanIn northern Iraq, which was described by Baghdad as a “threat to national security” due to the lack of coordination of operations. The Turkish Army has also conducted frequent military operations against the PKK and its allies in northern Syria (especially the Syrian Kurdish militia People’s Protection Units (YPG)) since the ceasefire between the government and the armed group broke down in July 2015.