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Kurdish Attack Kills Two Turkish Soldiers in Northern Iraq

Turkish army tanks are seen during a military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border in Silopi, Turkey, September 18, 2017. Mehmet Selim Yalcin/Dogan News Agency, DHA via REUTERS
Turkish army tanks are seen during a military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border in Silopi, Turkey, September 18, 2017. Mehmet Selim Yalcin/Dogan News Agency, DHA via REUTERS
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Kurdish Attack Kills Two Turkish Soldiers in Northern Iraq

Turkish army tanks are seen during a military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border in Silopi, Turkey, September 18, 2017. Mehmet Selim Yalcin/Dogan News Agency, DHA via REUTERS
Turkish army tanks are seen during a military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border in Silopi, Turkey, September 18, 2017. Mehmet Selim Yalcin/Dogan News Agency, DHA via REUTERS

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and another was wounded after Kurdish fighters fired rockets at a military base in northern Iraq, Turkey's Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Turkey has regularly attacked the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), both in its mainly Kurdish southeast and in northern Iraq, where the group is based.

The ministry said "harassment fire" by rocket launchers on Thursday killed the two troops at one of Turkey's bases in neighboring Iraq.

In June, Ankara launched a new ground offensive, dubbed Operation Claw-Tiger, that saw Turkish troops advance deeper into Iraq, Reuters reported.

In a separate statement, the Interior Ministry said 71 PKK militants had been killed since July 13 as part of a series of operations within Turkey, dubbed the "Lightning Operations", and added 38 collaborators had also been captured.

The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the US and the European Union, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict focused in southeast Turkey.

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Hemedti Admits Forces Withdrew from Sudan Capital

A picture shows burnt vehicles in a southern neighbourhood of Khartoum on March 29, 2025, after the military recaptured the capital. (Photo by AFP)
A picture shows burnt vehicles in a southern neighbourhood of Khartoum on March 29, 2025, after the military recaptured the capital. (Photo by AFP)
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Hemedti Admits Forces Withdrew from Sudan Capital

A picture shows burnt vehicles in a southern neighbourhood of Khartoum on March 29, 2025, after the military recaptured the capital. (Photo by AFP)
A picture shows burnt vehicles in a southern neighbourhood of Khartoum on March 29, 2025, after the military recaptured the capital. (Photo by AFP)

The head of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces admitted in a speech to fighters on Sunday that the group had withdrawn from the capital but pledged the RSF would return stronger to Khartoum.

"I confirm to you that we have indeed left Khartoum, but... we will return with even stronger determination," Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said in the speech, three days after the group said there would be "no retreat.”

It was Dagalo's first comment since the RSF were pushed back from most parts of Khartoum by the Sudanese army during a devastating war that has lasted two years.

Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, conceded in an audio message on Telegram that his forces left the capital last week as the army consolidated its gains.

Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ruled out any reconciliation with the RSF in a video statement on Saturday in which he vowed to crush the group.

"We will neither forgive, nor compromise, nor negotiate," he said, reaffirming the military's commitment to restoring national unity and stability.

Earlier on Saturday, the army said it had taken control of a major market in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, which had previously been used by the RSF to launch attacks during a devastating two-year-old war.

Burhan also said fighters who "repent to the truth" could still be amnestied if they lay down their arms, particularly those who are in rebel-held areas.