Turkey targets military personnel in Iraq’s Sinjar causing casualties
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Two military personnel at least of local security forces were injured on Wednesday in the Yazidi-majority district of Sinjar (Shengal), northwest Iraq, after a Turkish drone targeted their car, according to a security source.
The source told North Press that the drone targeted a vehicle of the security forces that were founded after the expulsion of Islamic State (ISIS) from Shengal.
The wounded individuals sustained serious injuries, according to the source.
The attack is the second of its kind during this week, as three fighters from the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS) were killed on Feb. 28 in a Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq.
Sinjar (Shingal in Kurdish) is run by an autonomous administration affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as Turkey claims. The area has its own military body called Shingal Protection Units (YBS in Kurdish).
Turkey regularly carries out attacks on the northern areas of the Kurdistan region, as well as it carries out from time to time air strikes air in Iraq, most of which are concentrated in the areas of Shengal and Makhmur camp in Nineveh Governorate.
On May 1, 2022 Shengal witnessed tension on the back of the deployment of Iraqi military units in different areas especially in the vicinity of Snuny, north of Sinjar Mountain.
The aim of deploying Iraqi military units was to impose military control over the area, remove barriers set up by the YBS, and remove the armed groups, according to a security agreement signed between Baghdad and Erbil in 2020.
Residents of the Yazidi majority Sinjar region, which is located on border with Syria, went through disastrous massacres at hands of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014.