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A person was injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a car detonated near the headquarters of an Iranian opposition party in the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil, the Kurdistan Region’s Directorate General of Counter-Terrorism (CTD) reported on Monday. Read More …
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed in northern Iraq, according to Turkey’s defence ministry, bringing to eight the number of troops killed during operations against Kurdish groups in the region in the past week. One soldier succumbed to wounds sustained Read More …
A Danish cyclist was killed on Thursday evening when a bomb exploded in the Kani Masi subdistrict of the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, a security source told Kurdistan 24. Initial reports indicated that the cyclist was wounded by a suspected Read More …
A Turkish soldier was killed during an anti-terror operation in northern Iraq, Turkiye’s National Defense Ministry said on Sunday, Anadolu reports. Mumin Carkci, an infantry specialist sergeant, was killed in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device on Saturday, Read More …
Turkish soldier was killed during Turkey’s newly launched cross-border operation in northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry said late Monday. The ministry said in a statement that First Lt. Ömer Delibaş was injured in the Operation Claw-Lock area due to a Read More …
Turkiye has launched a fresh cross-border anti-terror operation against the PKK terrorist group’s hideouts in northern Iraq, the country’s national defense minister said early Monday. Operation Claw-Lock, in which commando and special forces teams are taking part supported by unmanned Read More …
A man in Erbil province’s Bradost area lost a leg on Wednesday after a mine exploded on him as he was collecting plants, an official from the mine agency has confirmed to Rudaw. Rabar Anwar, the head of media at Read More …
Five Peshmerga were killed and five injured in an Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Diyala province on Saturday, a Peshmerga source told Rudaw Sunday morning. Militants attacked the Peshmerga in the Kolajo sub-district at around 10:15pm, a commander of the Read More …
The loss of their father has motivated five brothers to embark on a mission to raise awareness among local communities in mountainous border areas in the Kurdistan Region of the danger they face from thousands of unexploded mines planted there Read More …
Turkish soldier was killed and another one was wounded in northern Iraq when a bomb planted by terrorists exploded, the Defense Ministry said Monday. The ministry said in a statement that the soldier was wounded in the Operation Claw-Thunderbolt area Read More …
A farmer was killed by a landmine on the Kurdistan Region’s border with Iran on Friday. The landmine exploded at around 9 in the morning near Kodo Mountain in the Haji Omran area of Erbil province. The victim was a Read More …
A Turkish soldier was killed in northern Iraq after he was wounded in a bomb blast, the National Defense Ministry said Friday. Infantry specialist sergeant Umit Solak was seriously injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in the Read More …
Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq has been targeted in a drone attack, Kurdish security officials said, the latest in a series of similar incidents over the past year. The internal security service for Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, of which Read More …
Three Turkish soldiers have been killed and two were wounded by explosives planted by fighters in northern Iraq, Turkey’s defence ministry said. The ministry said on Monday the incident took place the day before in a region where Turkey was Read More …
The Iraqi military on Sunday said that members of the security forces thwarted an attack on a convoy transporting logistical supplies for the international US-led coalition south of Baghdad. The Security Media Cell said in a statement that an intelligence Read More …
Chalak Taha has spent most of the last 27 years searching the mountains for danger. Tucked among dry grasses on a steep hillside outside Wilyawa village in Sulaimani province, a member of his demining team has found one of potentially Read More …
The European Union’s ambassador to Iraq on Friday said the bloc would allocate an additional $8 million (€6.7 million) for the detection and destruction of explosives left by ISIS. Martin Huth said in a tweet that the money would be Read More …
Two Turkish soldiers were injured Saturday when their vehicle was hit by an explosion north of Nineveh in Duhok province, the mayor of Shekhan town said. A Turkish army convoy was targeted with a suspected improvised explosive device while traveling Read More …
A drone attacked Erbil airport in northern Iraq with explosives on Tuesday, aimed at the U.S. base on the airport grounds, Kurdish security sources said. Sirens were blaring from the U.S. consulate in the city, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Read More …
Turkish security forces have neutralized improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the PKK terrorists in Operation Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt areas in northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. Turkish soldiers in the Metina, Avashin-Basyan regions in northern Iraq have exterminated Read More …