Iraq Daily Roundup: 13 People Killed

by | May 17, 2021 | 0 comments


At least 13 people were killed, and two more were wounded in recent attacks:

Airstrikes on a rugged area near Hammam al-Alil left eight militants dead.

The body of a young man was found, bearing gunshot wounded, in Houd.

Samawa police begin shooting to disperse a crowd of protesters who were fighting. One demonstrator was wounded.

Old explosives leftover from the Islamic State occupation wounded a woman when they exploded in Bazawiya.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that an operation killed a high-ranking member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.). Over the weekend, airstrikes targeting P.K.K. guerrillas left three more.

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

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