Turkey carried out air strikes in northern Iraq against more than a dozen targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), killing at least six suspected PKK fighters (Anadolu), the head of the Turkish armed forces said.
Turkish ground forces had recently advanced further into Iraqi territory, saying over the weekend that they pushed another fifteen miles (National) into Iraqi Kurdistan’s Qandil Mountains. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that there would be “four-way cooperation” (VOA) between Ankara, Baghdad, Washington, and Irbil in the fight against the PKK, considered terrorists by Turkey, though the United States has not confirmed its participation. In neighboring Syria, U.S.-backed Kurdish forces announced they will leave the northern town of Manbij (Al Jazeera) following an agreement between Ankara and Washington.
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