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’s Defense Ministry announced on Saturday they "successfully completed" their Operation Claw-Tiger campaign against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Haftanin area of the Kurdistan Region's northern border with Turkey.
"Search and screening activities were successfully completed in Operation Claw Tiger, which was launched in Haftanin, northern Iraq, on June 16, 2020. Our hero commandos entered all the shelters, bunkers, and caves in the area and destroyed the terror lairs," read a tweet from the Defense Ministry.
Turkey claimed it "neutralized" 320 PKK fighters. The
The Haftanin mountainous region lies near the city of Zakho, close to the
The defense ministry’s announcement comes a day after Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani was in Ankara to meet
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The PKK has not acknowledged Ankara-announced casualties among its own fighters, but claims to have killed several