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• 732 Yazidis return to their homes from camps in Duhok 

  More Yazidi citizens are returning home after the mass displacement due to the ISIS' genocidal onslaught ten years ago.
• Turkish UCAV bombs Şarbajêr 

  As Turkey is continuing its drone war against southern Kurdistan, the district of Şarbajêr was once again targeted by an aerial attack on Monday.
• New group of young people joins the guerrillas 

  Another group of young people has joined the guerrillas. The new fighters called for people to join the anti-fascist struggle.
• HPG pays tribute to YJA Star guerrillas Tîjda Jiyan and Faraşîn Gabar 

  YJA Star guerrillas Tîjda Jiyan and Faraşîn Gabar were killed in April in an attack by the Turkish army in the Xakurkê region of South Kurdistan, said the HPG in a statement.
• KDP sentences a teacher for giving '3 boxes of biscuits to guerrillas' 

  A teacher from Sîdekan was sentenced to one and a half years in prison by the judiciary in South Kurdistan (North Iraq) for "collaborating with the PKK" because he allegedly gave a guerrilla three packets of biscuits.
• Fires erupt in five villages in Barwarî Bala as a result of Turkish bombardments 

  Bushfires were raging in five villages in Barwarî Bala as a result of Turkish bombardments.
• Governor of Sulaymaniyah: We need a national will and strength to defend ourselves 

  “We need a national will and strength to defend ourselves,” said Heval Abu Bakr, Governor of Sulaymaniyah.
• Communist Party of Kurdistan: Turkish state attacks with hostility 

  The Communist Party of Kurdistan condemned the massacre of free press workers by the occupying Turkish state and said, “The Turkish state does not distinguish civilians and attacks with hostility.”
• Many detained as KDP forces attack workers in Hewler 

  KDP Asayish attacked the protest of contract workers in Hewlêr and detained many workers.
• Yüksekova co-mayor Diri: We use resources for our people 

  Yüksekova Municipality co-mayor Şoreş Diri stated that they are working intensively to fix the damage caused by the trustees and said, "We are using all the resources of our municipality for our people."
• YRK pays tribute to guerrilla Harûn Partîzan  

  Guerrilla Harûn Partîzan died in an accident in the Asos Mountains, the Eastern Kurdish guerrilla organization YRK said in a statement.
• Gorran Movement Spokesperson: Turkish attack against journalist is a terrorist crime 

  Gorran Movement Spokesperson Dr Dilêr Abdulhalik condemned the Turkish state's attack on free press workers and said that they considered the attack a terrorist crime.
• Ala Talabani: The targeting of journalists is an unacceptable attack 

  Ala Talabani, a former Iraqi parliamentarian, said that the occupying Turkish state’s attack against journalists was unacceptable and that Baghdad adopted an ambiguous attitude in the face of Ankara's increasing attacks.
• Two wounded as village guards attack people in Ağrı countryside 

  Village guards attacked a village in the Diyadin district of Ağrı and injured two people. While the tension in the village continues, a ‘ban’ was imposed on entering and exiting the village.
• Hêro Bahadîn's father: They bring the enemy to Kurdistan and slaughter our children 

  Bahadîn Abdullah, the father of the journalist Hêro Bahadîn killed in Turkish attack, condemned those who were complicit in the enemies' arrival in Kurdistan and said, “They are slaughtering our children with our money and oil.”
• Kurdish guerrillas carry out actions in Zap and Metîna 

  The Kurdish guerrillas continue to attack Turkish occupation troops in the Medya Defense Areas. In the Zap region, a soldier was shot dead.
• KRG Deputy PM and the Governor of Sulaymaniyah condemn the Turkish killing of journalists 

  Kurdistan Regional Government Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani described the murder of the two journalists as an unacceptable crime and called on the Iraqi government and the international community to put limits on the actions of the Turkish state.
• Protest against deadly Turkish attack against journalists in Sulaymaniyah 

  The Kurdistan Region Journalists’ Syndicate and Metro Centre for the Protection of Journalists’ Rights protested the massacre of journalists by the Turkish state.
• ‘There is a local and intelligence intervention in the Turkish attack against journalists’ 

  Making a statement on the Turkish attack in Sulaymaniyah, Chatr Production General Manager Kemal Heme Reza said, “There is an intelligence intervention. All those martyred and wounded in the attack are journalists.”
• Two media workers killed in Turkish drone attack near Sulaymaniyah 

  Two journalists were killed as a vehicle carrying members of the press was bombed by a Turkish drone near Sulaymaniyah earlier today.
• Turkish drones target Mawet 

  The Turkish state's armed drones targeted Mawet, affiliated to the city of Sulaymaniyah.
• HPG pays tribute to guerrillas Rosîda Mêrdîn, Mazlum Doğan and Berxwedan Qamişlo  

  Guerrillas Rosîda Mêrdîn, Mazlum Doğan and Berxwedan Qamişlo fell in March. The HPG has published a moving obituary for the Kurdish and Arab freedom fighters.
• Turkish airstrikes target Şarbajêr and Asos 

  The Turkish air force attacked the Asos Mountains in the border area between southern and eastern Kurdistan and a village in Sulaymaniyah countryside.
• "Freedom Readings" events in Amed, Batman and Van 

  In many cities of North Kurdistan, the defense and analysis written by Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan were read.
• HPG pays tribute to guerrilla Berwar Dêrsîm  

  Guerrilla Berwar Dêrsîm fell as a martyr in North Kurdistan. She had been a guerrilla for 25 years and was most recently the Serhed commander of the YJA Star and a member of the HPG command council.