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

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.

Author: Margaret Griffis

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