A drone strike on a Turkish military base in northern Iraq

According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, some Iraqi media outlets reported a drone strike on a Turkish military base in the north of the country on Sunday morning.

“More than four drones attacked the Turkish occupation base in Ba’ashiqa,” the Saber News Telegram channel wrote in a breaking news item.

According to the report, after the attack of the squadron from combat drones, a column of smoke and fire rose from the “Zelikan” base belonging to the Turkish military located east of Mosul.

Minutes later, Sabrinews reported that the Iraqi Ahrar Sinjar group claimed responsibility for the attack, adding that “Ahrar Sinjar Resistance Air Force fired more than six kamikaze suicide drones at a Turkish base.”

The Rudaw news agency, which belongs to the Iraqi Kurdistan region, claimed in its report that several rockets hit a Turkish military base in Nineveh province.

“We warned the Turkish occupation of the consequences of continuing repeated encroachments on Iraqi territory and its safe cities, and our operation was in response to the recent encroachments,” Ahrar Sinjar’s military spokesman Tarawus Malek said in a statement issued a few minutes later. “It took place on the outskirts of Kirkuk and Duhok.”

The statement said: “We targeted the Turkish occupation base in Ba’ashiqa with two high-quality UAVs, which we used for the first time since the beginning of our operation. “The two drones hit their targets with great accuracy and, according to preliminary information, inflicted material and human damage on the Turkish occupiers.”

Ahrar Sinjar’s spokesman concluded: “Our operation will continue as long as the occupation continues with its brutality and aggression, and we confirm what we have said before that we consider the attack on any part of Iraqi territory as an attack on Sinjar.”

“Two Turkish soldiers and a Turkish army contractor were killed inside the Zelikan base,” Saberin News claimed.

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