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Iraq
Turkish army bolsters positions in Kurdistan Region
2020-07-01
[Rudaw] The Ottoman Turkish army has established five new outposts in the Kurdistan Region, the mayor of Darkar district in Zakho said on Monday.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
has recently stepped up a military campaign targeting Kurdish rebels that has drawn condemnation from Iraqi officials.

Darkar mayor Zerevan Musa said Turkey flew in troops on helicopters and established the outposts on mountains near the villages of Sharanish and Banka, near the Ottoman Turkish border.

Musa added that the Turks have gone more than 30 kilometres deep into Iraqi territory, in different areas across the Kurdistan Region

Several Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s have hit farms and other sites around Sharanish and Banka villages.

Video showed smoke from the airstrikes, and what from a distance appeared to be Ottoman Turkish troops on a mountainside.
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