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Turkey regularly conducts airstrikes in northern Iraq and has dozens of outposts on Iraqi territory. (Representational image)
Turkey has led a long-running campaign in Iraq and Syria against militants of the PKK and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, both of which Ankara considers terrorist groups.
A Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq killed three fighters from the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service said on Tuesday.
The counter-terrorism service said that at 5:00 a.m. the YBS headquarters in Sinjar district were targeted.
Turkey has led a long-running campaign in Iraq and Syria against militants of the PKK and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, both of which Ankara considers terrorist groups.
Turkey regularly conducts airstrikes in northern Iraq and has dozens of outposts on Iraqi territory.
It regards the YBS as a group linked to the PKK and YPG, and has targeted it before, most recently in February.
A senior Turkish security official said: “We hit a target today but we are regularly hitting YPG targets.”
The official said that the authorities are currently examining the results of the operation.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – reuters,
