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The terrorist group has once again shown its true colors by shooting 13 civilians to death, but the Turkish military's response was even more deadly...

Turkey and Iran conduct airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq, while Turkey threatens a major ground operation.

Terrorists targeted in Hakurk, Sinat-Haftanin, Metina, Avasin-Basyan, Zap regions as part of ‘Claw’ operations - Anadolu Agency

TURKISH jets attacked civilian districts of the Gara and Matin mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Duhok province today morning, according to local media. NRT reporter Nihad Oramari said that the missiles had struck areas near the villages of Kurku, Bnavi and Kafia at least five times. No casualties were reported as a result of the air strike, which was the second in recent days. Though the missiles did not hit any homes, they struck agricultural land and areas where local residents collect sprin...

Kurds in mountain prison cower as Turkey fights PKK with drones in Iraq Mukhlis Adam’s mother and sisters at his grave in Sheladze. Adam was killed by an airstrike in June 2020, aged 28. Photograph: Adam Gnych/The Guardian Mukhlis Adam’s mother and sisters at his grave in Sheladze. Adam was killed by an airstrike in June 2020, aged 28. Photograph: Adam Gnych/The Guardian As decades-old battle intensifies, civilians count cost in lives and livelihoods Bethan McKernan in Istanbul and Adam Gn...

What Does Turkey Want From Iraqi Kurdistan? As Kurds are used to it, they face internal political divisions while their territories are once more wedged between regional and world powers, not least their powerful Turkish neighbor. Iraq’s Kurdistan Region has had an eventful few days. On Monday, February 15, rocket attacks by an Iran-aligned Iraqi militia on the airport of its capital, Erbil, killed a civilian contractor with the U.S.-led military coalition and wounded six others, including a ...

No military officer would accept such an operation, says main opposition party head Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) called for action from the international community today, warning of a “political lynching” after a jailed former mayor was beaten so badly she was unable to speak during a court hearing. Dilek Hatipoglu was subjected to a forced strip-search when she was transferred from Ankara’s Sinan prison to a T-Type jail in the largely Kurdish south-eastern province of Van last week. After she refused prison guards’ orders to undress at the e...

Statement by Dirayet Dilan Tasdemir over visit to terrorist-dominated region of northern Iraq triggers probe - Anadolu Agency

British defense chief extends his condolences for Turkish personnel, citizens martyred by PKK terror group in northern Iraq