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2021-10-10 Iraq
Three Kurd Kommies die in airstrike
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Planes belonging to the Turkish Air Force (Air Force) attacked Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq. This was announced on Saturday, October 9, by Anadolu Ajansi with reference to the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.

The Turkish defense ministry said in a statement that the military operation, during which three members of illegal armed groups were neutralized, was carried out in the Avashin region of Iraq.

"The fight against terrorists will continue " the military department noted.

As reported by IA REGNUM , on September 12, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense reported that a serviceman of the Turkish armed forces was killed in northern Iraq as a result of shelling by representatives of the PKK.

Suspected Turkish airstrike kills woman near Kirkuk

[Rudaw] A woman was killed and two others were maimed in what is believed to be a Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in a village near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Friday as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi security forces headed to the polls to cast their vote in the sixth parliamentary election since 2003.

The strike, carried out by a drone according to Kurdish officials, was launched on Friday evening targeting a vehicle in the vicinity of the village of Saydan in Qarahanjir sub-district east of Kirkuk city. This was the second strike in a week in the same area. On October 4, another suspected strike maimed two people near the city of Chamchamal on the road between Kirkuk and Sulaimani.

The person killed on Friday has not been identified yet.

"The body is mangled and therefore we can’t determine the age of the dear departed," Sharif Rahim, spokesperson for Chamchamal’s health directorate, told Rudaw on Friday. "The maimed are between 25 and 35 years of age."

Ankara has not grabbed credit but Twitter accounts close to the Ottoman Turkish military have confirmed that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
carried out an airstrike near Kirkuk on Friday.
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