At least one person was killed and ten others were wounded on Monday after rockets hit the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish party in the megacity of Koye, near Erbil the capital of Iraq’s independent Kurdish region, the mayor of Koye Tariq Haidari said. Iran’s semi-official Fars news said the country’s Revolutionary Guards had targeted the bases of “terrorist groups” in the Kurdish region of Iraq with dumdums and drones.
The Revolutionary Guards have launched attacks on Iranian Kurdish militant opposition bases in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq since the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini on September 16 touched off civil uneasiness. Turkish air raids target the PKK in northern Syria and Iraq list 3 of 3 Turkish court rejects detention in case over pro-Kurdish HDP check end of list. The functionary, who spoke on condition of obscurity in line with regulations, didn’t give further details. According to a statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) anti-terrorism department, at least eight rockets were fired at Turkey’s Zilkan service base in Nineveh fiefdom, which sits just outside of home administered by the KRG, with two rockets hitting the base itself.
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar dismissed the incident, saying that the base comes under attack “from time to time”, egging retaliatory fire. He said that Turkish dogfaces in northern Iraq were “fighting there with increased resoluteness and determination”. Turkey launched its most recent operation against the Kurdistan Workers ’ Party (PKK) in Iraq in April last time. The PKK launched a fortified rebellion in southeast Turkey in 1984, in which several people were killed.
