According to the Sulaymaniyah-based news agency RojNews, the village of Sakarî was targeted by Turkish air strikes on Saturday afternoon. There is no reliable information on the extent of the attacks. Contact with the village has been broken off.

Turkey attacks southern Kurdistan territory on an almost daily basis as Ankara tries to annex the regions of southern Kurdistan controlled by the People's Defence Forces (HPG) to its own national territory. As the guerrilla areas border on civilian settlement areas, the Turkish government pursues a targeted policy of expulsion - above all by destroying the civilian infrastructure and by terrorising the population. Residential areas of the local population are regularly attacked.

Only a week ago on Saturday, three people were killed and another person was seriously injured in a Turkish drone attack in Pêncwên near Sulaymaniyah. HPG reports almost daily air and ground attacks by the Turkish army against the Kurdistan Region in Iraq.