The Turkish Defense Forces announced that 9 PKK militants were killed in an air strike in northern Iraq.

The Turkish defense stated in a statement today that one of the Turkish army units in charge of operations to Lock Claw in northern Iraq monitored the movements of a number of PKK fighters, as the Turkish warplanes launched an air strike on the locations of the militants, killing nine of them.

The Turkish army carried out a large-scale military operation on April 18 of last year, and it is still ongoing, dubbed Lock Claw, against the strongholds of the PKK in the regions of Matina, Zab, Afshin and Bazian in northern Iraq.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency