Turkey carries out new airstrikes in northern Iraq, killing 16 Kurdish militants [Video]

• Turkey has reportedly conducted new airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in Iraq.
• The country’s defense ministry said 16 militants, including commanders, were killed in the airstrikes.
• These airstrikes follow Turkish President Erdogan’s recent visit to Iraq, where he sought increased cooperation from Baghdad in combating the militants.

Turkey has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday.

Warplanes struck suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the regions of Hakurk, Metina and Gara in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, according to the statement.

The airstrikes reportedly killed 16 militants, including some commanders, the ministry said. There was no immediate comment from the PKK, a banned separatist group that has waged an insurgency against Turkey since the 1980s.

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