Iraq Weekly Roundup: Seven Killed

At least seven people were killed, and another was wounded in recent violence:

A U.S drone strike killed three militiamen. The three belonged to the Kataib Hezbollah militia. One of them was reported to be Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saadi, who was the commander in charge of the militia’s operations in Syria.

Turkish strikes targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.) guerrillas left two guerrillas dead in northern Iraq. Separately, a P.K.K. leader was killed, along with several others during a Turkish operation.

One person was killed, and another wounded in a shooting near Kirkuk.

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