Iraq Daily Roundup: Five Killed; Turkish Jets Bomb PKK Targets

by | May 21, 2020 | 0 comments

At least five people were killed, and two more were wounded in recent violence:

Turkish jets bombed suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerrillas in Metina and left four of them dead.

In Sadr City, gunmen killed a man they believed to be gay and left a warning message on his person.

A bomb wounded two employees of the Diyala Electricity Department in Sherwin.

Also, security forces captured Abdul Nasser Qirdash, a potential successor to deceased ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Margaret Griffis is a journalist from Miami Beach, Florida and has been covering Iraqi casualties for Antiwar.com since 2006.

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