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No casualties in suspected Turkish airstrike in Erbil’s Bradost mountains
[Rudaw] A suspected Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
 targeting Erbil’s eastern border with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Monday resulted in no reported casualties, according to a local mayor.

The suspected Ottoman Turkish drone struck Bradost mountain range in Erbil’s Sidakan subdistrict on Monday, targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) activity in the region.

"There was a guerrilla base on the mountain and today a group of guerrillas strolled through the area, grabbing the attention of the Ottoman Turkish drone and leading it to strike the area," Ihsan Chalabi, mayor of Sidakan, told Rudaw.

"The strike was close to a Peshmerga base, but there were no casualties," he added.

The PKK is an gang fighting for greater rights for Kurds in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, with several bases in the Kurdistan Region. Turkey frequently carries out cross-border ground and air offensives against alleged locations of the PKK, which Ankara considers to be a terrorist organization.

In April, Turkey launched the twin operations ’Claw-Lightning’ and ’Claw-Thunderbolt’ against the PKK in northern Duhok.

Iran also targets Kurdish opposition groups within the Kurdistan Region’s borders. For decades, Kurdish opposition parties have struggled to secure the rights of Kurds in Iran.

From the mid-1990s until 2015, parties based in the Kurdistan Region have generally stayed away from clashing with Iranian security forces.

Since early 2015, however, these groups have deployed units to mountainous areas close to the Iranian border. From there, they have sent units into Iran and clashed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other security forces.

Last month, Iran attacked the border areas of Choman, Sidakan, and Haji Omran on several occasions, targeting alleged Kurdish opposition group bases.

There have been over 400 military incursions into the Kurdistan Region so far this year, endangering innocent civilians, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) coordinator for international advocacy Dindar Zebari said in a statement on September 22, without naming any nation or group.

Civilian populations and the environment have been severely damaged by the Turkey-PKK conflict. Several people have been killed, thousands of acres of land have been scorched, and people’s houses and livestock have been hit.

The KRG has repeatedly called on both Iran and Turkey to respect its illusory sovereignty, and for the Kurdish groups to stop using Kurdistan Region territory to launch attacks on its neighbors.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-10-26
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