More than 4,000 dunams of Duhok land burned by Turkish airstrikes this year: forest police
[Rudaw] More than 4,000 dunams of land and green spaces have been burned by
According to data sent to Rudaw English by the Kurdistan Region’s forest police directorate, 4,181 dunams of land has been burned by
In the past ten years more than 1,000,000 dunams of land has been burned in the Kurdistan Region, Ahmed Mohammed, spokesperson of the Kurdistan Region’s Environmental Protection and Improvement board told Rudaw English on Tuesday. Around 35 percent of this was from
The problem is a recurring issue.
Turkish bombardment damages church in Duhok village
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"It was around 2:40 am when the rockets hit near the village. As you can see, it is only 100 meters away," Dawoud Yukhanna, a villager from Miska, told Rudaw.
Yukhanna also said that the windows of the church and several other houses in the village were broken in the bombardment.
Miska is located in Amedi, and lies some 15 kilometers away from Kesta and Chalke - villages recently abandoned due to
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s. Only eight families have returned to live in Miska.
PKK confirms death of four fighters in Duhok airstrike, blaming ‘local spies’
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) confirmed on Tuesday the death of four of its fighters in a
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in a Duhok village, claiming they were reported to
"On the night of May 20, a group of our comrades, who had health issues, were targeted by the
"Again, it is understood that some local spies played a role in this incident."
The airstrike took place in Dulia village, some 35 kilometers north of the city of Duhok. The PKK fighters were travelling inside two vehicles which were later burned in the airstrikes. Village chief Mahdi Taha told Rudaw on Friday that the PKK fighters were chased by
20-year-old civilian injured in Turkish bombardment of Duhok village
[Rudaw] A Kurdish civilian was injured in a
"We were in the village when the bombardment started. One bomb hit the mountain and then another hit near the village and I was injured by it," 20-year-old Bawar Ahmad told Rudaw’s Naif Ramazan from a hospital bed on Tuesday.
Ahmad was injured in the leg and was treated in hospital. He is the first civilian reported injured in
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’s latest operation in the Kurdistan Region.
Most of the residents of Deshish village fled their homes last week after