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A Turkish soldier has died on Sunday in clashes with Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq, Turkey’s defence ministry said in a statement.
On June 17, Turkey launched an air and ground offensive against the PKK, which has fought an armed campaign against the Turkish state since 1984 and which is listed as a “terrorist” group by Ankara and its Western allies.
Turkey was accused today of using chemical weapons in Monday’s bombing of Maxmur refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, amid calls for an international investigation.
Some 80 other sites were also targeted, including Sengal refugee camp and alleged Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions in the Qandil mountains.
They had established an anarcho-insurrectional subversive cell, they had as base a social centre in Roma and aimed to reorganize the anarchist movement.
Seven people have been arrested by Ros Carabinieri withe charges of association with purpose of terrorism and subversion of the democratic order, act of terrorism with deadly and explosive devices and other crimes.
Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of Westerners in the sub-Saharan Sahel zone, Parly said.
“Many close associates” of Droukdel – who commanded several affiliate jihadist groups across the lawless region – were also “neutralised”, she added.
Russian air strikes have hit Syria’s last major rebel bastion for the first time since a March ceasefire came into force, a war monitor said today.
The Russian strikes on Tuesday evening and at dawn today hit an area of the northwest where the boundaries of Hama, Idlib and Latakia provinces meet, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.