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2022-04-25 Iraq
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Several rockets target Zilkan military base amid Ankara’s ongoing operation
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[Rudaw] Several rockets on Sunday targeted military base housing Ottoman Turkish troops in northern Iraq amid The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s ongoing offensive against a Kurdish gang stationed in the Kurdistan Region’s mountains.
Around five rockets hit Zilkan base at around 7:50 pm, Mohammed Amin Gharib, the mayor of Zilkan told Rudaw.
The Kurdistan Region’s counter terrorism directorate confirmed the attack, saying at least six rockets targeted the base with "three of the rockets landing nearby the base."
An anonymous source from within the base initially told Rudaw that at least six rockets had targeted the facility.
No casualties have been reported.
Home to Ottoman Turkish personnel in Zilkan, the base is located 10 kilometers away from the town of Bashiqa in Nineveh province.
The base has been a target of at least four rocket attacks since the start of the year.
Turkey-Iraq relations were strained in the wake of the deployment of some 150 Ottoman Turkish soldiers to Iraq in December 2015. Ottoman Turkish troops were deployed to the area on the pretext of training Iraqi and Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).
The troops are still present in the area despite calls from Iraqi officials for them to leave.
The recent offense coincides with Ankara’s fresh military operation targeting suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases in northern Duhok province. 
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