Sulaimaniyah: Officials in the autonomous Kurdistan region blamed the Turkish military and claimed that four "fighters" from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed by a drone strike in northern Iraq.

As Kurdish authorities in neighbouring Syria reported that a drone attack by Turkiye had killed four members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the strike near Sulaimaniyah, the second largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan, took place on Friday.

The PKK is considered a "terrorist" group by Ankara and its Western allies. Turkiye views the People's Protection Units (YPG), which make up the majority of the SDF, as a PKK "terrorist" offshoot.

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Despite frequently attacking PKK rear bases in the Kurdistan region's mountains, the Turkish army rarely discusses its operations in Iraq.

According to a statement from the Iraqi Kurdistan anti-terrorism services, "four PKK fighters were killed and another was wounded when a Turkish army drone targeted their vehicle near the village of Rangina" on Friday at 8:00 p.m. (1700 GMT).

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Tens of thousands of people have lost their lives in Turkiye as a result of the PKK's insurgency since 1984, and Ankara has long maintained military outposts in northern Iraq from which it routinely conducts operations against them.
Six Yazidi PKK fighters were killed in two raids in May that occurred in the Iraqi Kurdistan district of Sinjar, which local security officials attributed to Ankara.

Fighters from the Sinjar Resistance Units were once more killed in strikes that the anti-terrorism service blamed on Turkiye in late February and early March. Following the extremists' 2014 massacre of thousands of Yazidi men and their kidnapping of thousands of women to be used as sex slaves, the movement decided to take up arms against the Daesh organisation.

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Both the Kurdistan regional government and the federal government of Iraq have been charged with tolerating Turkiye's military activities in order to maintain their strong economic ties.

An "upcoming visit" by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was mentioned by the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani on Tuesday, but no specific date was given.

The meeting's main topics would probably be the economy and the delicate problem of water.
According to Baghdad, severe water shortages in recent years have been a result of Turkiye building upstream dams on important rivers that both countries share during the current drought.