As Turkey Intensifies War on Kurdish Militants in Iraq, Civilians are Suffering

October 15, 2023

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Nidal Mahmoud reacts with her two daughters, Dalal Ziad and Baraa Ziad, after the killing of her husband Ziyad Khadr and her daughter Ryam Ziad, who were killed in a drone strike in the northern Iraqi province of Sulaimaniya, in Mosul, Iraq, August 14, 2023. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily

Seventeen-year-old Samir Saado was finishing his cleaning shift at the village medical centre when an airstrike hit the building. “I didn’t see anything other than dust and smoke,” said Saado, a member of Iraq’s minority Yazidi community. “My leg was stuck under the rubble. I called for help and people were coming but the planes kept striking.”

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