Sulaimaniya (Reuters) – Turkish drone strikes on Sunday killed two Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants and wounded two in Iraq’s northern provinces of Sulaimaniya and Dahuk, Iraqi Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service and a security source said.
Two PKK fighters were in their vehicle in the town of Chamchamal when the drone hit them, killing one and wounding another, the counter-terrorism service said in a statement.
Another Turkish drone strike killed a PKK fighter and wounded another when it hit their vehicle near the town of Amadiya, close to the Turkish border in Dahuk province, a Kurdish security source, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Turkey regards the PKK as a terrorist group and regularly carries out air strikes in northern Iraq, which has long been outside the direct control of the Baghdad government. It has also has sent commandos to support its offensives.
In a separate incident, unknown gunmen shot dead a Kurdish Peshmerga officer in his vehicle in Erbil on Sunday, a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Iraqi Kurdish security sources said the incident was under investigation without giving more details.
