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Iraq
Five PKK members killed in Mosul
2022-07-18
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Five members of the Kurdistan Workers Party were killed in an attack west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the Counter-Terrorism Group in Kurdistan (CTK) announced on Sunday.

Earlier today, a security source reported to Shafaq News agency that five people were killed in a drone attack in Nineveh today, Sunday.

The source added that the drone targeted a vehicle carrying four men and a woman, killing them on the spot.
Rudaw adds:
A drone targeting a vehicle in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Sunday left at least five dead and two others injured, an official told Rudaw with the Kurdish counter terrorism department confirming the attack shortly after.

Nineveh MP Sherwan Dubardani told Rudaw’s Nahro Mohammed that the incident occurred in Mosul’s Haj Dijlah village, killing five people and injuring two others, without identifying the drone.

Shortly after Dubardani's statement, the Kurdistan Region's Counter Terrorism Directorate claimed that the drone was Ottoman Turkish and it hit a "PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] vehicle ... killing five PKK fighters."

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
media outlets affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) alleged that the attack was conducted by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, hitting a civilian’s car.

Voicing his condemnation of the attack, Nineveh’s Governor Najim al-Jubouri later in the day said the drone that hit the area was Ottoman Turkish and called on the Iraqi government to protest such actions to the Ottoman Turkish government.

News outlets of Iraq’s Iran-backed parties also said that the attack was conducted by Turkey. Ankara has not commented on the incident as of yet.
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