ANKARA: Turkish air strike on Friday killed two civilians in the mountainous Sheladiz area of northern Iraq’s Duhok province, said two Iraqi security sources.
According to Turkiye’s defense ministry its forces conducted two air strikes in Iraq and Syria overnight, killing six militants in Iraq and seven in Syria.
The ministry in its post on social media platform X did not provide any further details and even did not mention the regions that were targeted in the strikes.
Turkiye regularly conducts air strikes and cross-border operations in neighboring Iraq as part of its military campaign against the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is mainly based in northern Iraq’s mountainous region.
Turkiye, the United States and the European Union designated the PKK, a terrorist group after it took up weapons against the Turkish state in 1984. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the insurgency so far.
Turkiye has also carried out a series of military offensives and bombing campaigns in northern Syria against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which it declared as a wing of the PKK.
