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Iraq
Turkey says 23 Kurdish militants killed in Iraq airstrikes
2022-10-03
[AlAhram] The ministry usually refers to killed turbans as ``neutralized.'' It said the number of casualties in the mission in the Asos region of northern Iraq, which is controlled by the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, was expected to rise.

A video accompanying the ministry's tweet showed F-16 fighters taking off and a number of explosions in a mountainous area. The ministry referred to a statement from Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Thursday in which he said Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s had hit 16 targets in the Asos region.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
has been conducting a series of operations in northern Iraq since 2019, saying the military is targeting the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, to prevent it from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey. In April, Operation Claw-Lock was launched, which involves ground and air forces.

The PKK has waged an on-again, off-again insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state since 1984, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. The group is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union
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Asos region: 2019-08-17 Turkish airstrikes burn orchards, farms of villagers in Kurdistan Region
Asos region: 2017-11-30 Turkey claims over 80 ‘terrorists’ killed in northern Iraq
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