One killed as Turkey launches drone strike against PKK targets in northern Iraq
At least one person has been killed and another injured in a Turkish drone strike in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, as Ankara ramps up its cross-border raids in the Arab country.
A security source said that the strike targeted a post for a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group in the town of Chamchamal, west of the city of Sulaimaniya.
There has been a long-running Turkish campaign in Iraq against members of the PKK, which is regarded as a terrorist group by Ankara.
The central government in Baghdad has frequently condemned Turkish attacks on its northern Kurdistan region.
Militants of the PKK — designated as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union — regularly clash with Turkish forces in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of Turkey attached to northern Iraq.
A shaky ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government collapsed in July 2015. Attacks on Turkish security forces have soared ever since.
Turkish ground and air forces frequently carry out operations against PKK positions in the country as well as in northern Iraq and neighboring Syria.
More than 40,000 people have been killed during the three-decade conflict between Turkey and the autonomy-seeking militant group.
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