"A bomb-laden drone targeted the Ottoman Turkish army’s Zilkan military base in Bashiqa district of Nineveh province, and there were no casualties," the Erbil-based Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD), also known as Kurdistan CT, said in a statement.
Zilkan military base has been frequently targeted in recent years, and the attacks have largely been attributed to Iran-backed Iraqi militias. The attacks, however, have simmered down over the past year.
The presence of Ottoman Turkish forces in the base has been widely condemned by the Iraqi government, and tensions reached a boiling point in July 2022 when a deadly shelling in the Kurdistan Region’s Zakho blamed on
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...killed nine Iraqi tourists and injured tens of others.
That incident harmed diplomatic relations between the two countries, with Iraq filing a complaint against Turkey at the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Security Council.
Iraq has also frequently condemned Turkey for its military incursions into the Kurdistan Region under the pretext of targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
But Baghdad also labeled the PKK a banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization last year, under pressure from Ankara.
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