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Kurds in ‘mountain prison’ cower as Turkey fights PKK with drones in Iraq
As decades-old battle intensifies, civilians count cost in lives and livelihoods It took 10 days to find Muhsin Speri’s body. The 64-year-old had left his town in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan along with friends Hassan Sadiq and Safar Sini on a dry, windy day in December last year to fish and forage for wild […]
Turkey targets joint meeting of PKK and Iraqi border guards
Turkey unmanned aircraft attacked a joint meeting of several PKK members and Iraqi border officials in the Sidekan area yesterday. A car carrying two Iraqi officers and their driver was reportedly targeted and all three were killed. Regarding the killing of PKK members no exact information is available yet. Iraqi President Barham Saleh condemned the […]
REPRESENTATIVE FARID YAQOUB: SOVEREIGNTY OF IRAQ IS BEING VIOLATED AGAIN AFTER TURKISH ATTACKS AND IRANIAN BOMBING
The Assyrian deputy Farid Yaqoub, head of the Rafidain bloc in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, called on the governments of Baghdad and Erbil to assume their responsibilities in preserving the sovereignty of the country and protecting the lives and property of innocent citizens in the border areas bordering Turkey due to ground attacks and […]