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Turkey strikes YBS vehicles in Shingal, killing local PKK leader |
2018-08-17 |
[Rudaw] Khal Ali, a former YBS commander and a current Hashd al-Shaabi official, confirmed the killing of Zaki Shingali, the leader of all PKK forces in Shingal. He added four YBS fighters were killed and Haval Mazlum, the general commander of YBS in Shingal was maimed. The Acting Snune Mayor Khudaida Chuke told Rudaw that the jets targeted checkpoints of the Shingal Protection Units (YBS). Qasim Shasho, a Peshmerga commander in Shingal, told Rudaw A Yezidi activist group tweeted they were "very worried" about "more than five kabooms." The YBS, with ties to the PKK, has previously said it would only incorporate locals. Snune is a sub-district of Shingal, located in northwestern Iraq in the Kurdistan Region. The Shingal region is the Yezidi homeland. A Yezidi organization's executive director, Yazda co-founder Murad Ismael, tweeted that ISIS survivors were in the southern Shingal town of Kocho to mourn four years after the genocide. The YBS convoy had returned from the fourth anniversary of the Yezidis massacre in Kocho village while they were targeted in the Sikne area near Snune, according to Shasho. The bombing came a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited Ankara where he met ![]() Abadi had said in his meeting with Erodgan that Iraq would not allow any group to threaten neighboring ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... using Iraq's territory. |
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