Operation Claw (2019)

Operation Claw is a cross-border military operation by the Turkish Armed Forces into northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers' Party. Turkish troops fired artillery shells and launched air attacks in the morning of the 28th of May, 2019, followed by a border crossing by the Turkish Army.

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On June 12, a failed PKK ambush killed 2 militants bringing the PKK death toll to 45. Weapons and head cameras were seized.

On June 13, 3 PKK militants were killed in the Harkuk region of Northern Iraq.