Iraq Daily Roundup: 17 Killed; Ongoing Turkish Operations

by | May 27, 2020 | 0 comments

At least 17 people were killed, and four more were wounded in recent violence:

Ongoing Turkish operations on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.) targets in Asos, Haftanin, and Hakurk left ten guerrillas dead. Five more were killed in a strike on Sefre. A 13-year-old girl was wounded in a clash between the P.K.K. and Turkish forces in Dohuk province.

An attack on a checkpoint in Sadr al-Yusufiya left one soldier dead and another wounded.

In Sufait, a woman’s body was found.

Two militiamen were wounded by bomb in Sansal Basin.

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

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