The Press Centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) issued a statement providing latest information about the war in Kurdistan.

According to the statement, guerrillas struck positions of the Turkish invasion forces in the Dergelê region in Metîna on Friday evening. The guerrillas used light and semi-automatic weapons and initially destroyed two positions. When the Turkish army tried to intervene from other positions, the guerrillas struck again and destroyed two more positions. Four soldiers were killed during the course of the action.

In the western Zap region, a soldier was shot dead by a sniper from the Free Women's Troops (YJA Star) when a Turkish unit tried to replace a surveillance camera destroyed by guerrillas in the Girê Cûdî region on Thursday. An attempted advance by the Turkish army in the Girê Bahar area was repulsed on Friday evening by an attack with semi-automatic weapons.

In Gever (Yüksekova) district of Hakkari, the guerrillas destroyed three surveillance cameras installed by the Turkish army in the areas of Gundê Civyan, Şargulata and Gundê Sêgûza on 17 July.

Regarding the latest attacks by the Turkish army on the guerrilla-held Medya Defence Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), HPG said that banned explosives were used twice against a guerrilla tunnel in the resistance area of Girê FM on 18 July. The tunnel facility on the western front of the Zap region has been under siege by the Turkish army for two and a half months and has repeatedly been attacked with chemical weapons and other banned weapons.

In addition, HPG reported 25 airstrikes with fighter jets in the past two days. The bombed areas were Lolan, Kolît and Şehîd Şerîf in Xakurke, Avtehlê, Deşta Kafya, Sipîndarê, Kanî Gûzê, Girgaşê and Mijê in Gare as well as Girê Bahar and Girê Amêdîyê in Zap. Girê Bahar was also shelled by attack helicopters today.