SULAIMANIYAH: Three persons were murdered on Wednesday in a drone assault on a car in the autonomous Kurdish area of northern Iraq, a local official said AFP.
As part of its battle against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, Turkiye has maintained dozens of military sites in northern Iraq for the past 25 years.
Since 1984, the communist group has been fighting intermittently against Turkiye, and Ankara and its Western supporters have classified it as a “terrorist organization.”
Dokan district governor Sirwan Sarhad told AFP that “a drone bombed a car on the Dokan-Khalakan road this afternoon, killing three people.”
He continued, “There are three burned people in the car,” identifying two of them as a father and son who resided in the Kurdistan region of Ranya.
In March, the PKK was quietly declared a “banned organization” by the federal government in Baghdad. A military cooperation agreement was reached with Ankara last month, which calls for the establishment of joint command centers and training facilities in the war against the terrorists.
On August 23, two female journalists employed by PKK-funded media organizations were killed by a drone strike that Kurdish sources attributed to Turkiye.
Additionally, the Turkish defense ministry announced on Tuesday that its forces had attacked the PKK in the northern Iraqi mountains with airstrikes, claiming to have eliminated “numberous” fighters.
