Two of his fighters Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed today and two others were injured by a “Turkish army drone” that struck the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, local authorities said.

The Turkish military rarely comments on its strikes in Iraq, but regularly launches ground and air military operations against the PKK and its positions in the north of the neighboring country, mainly in the autonomous Kurdistan region.

“Two Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters were killed and two others wounded when a Turkish military drone targeted a group of PKK fighters in Buskinia village in the province of Rania,” the anti-terrorist services of Iraqi Kurdistan announced.

The area is north of it Suleymaniyahthe second largest city of Iraqi Kurdistan.

THE Turkey has maintained dozens of military bases in Iraqi Kurdistan for 25 years to fight the PKK, which also has rearguard bases in the region.

In October, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his country would “continue to intensify” its strikes in Syria and Iraq against the PKK, an organization that Ankara and its Western allies consider “terrorist”.

Today’s strike in Iraqi Kurdistan took place while the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Ankara.

In late October, ten PKK members were killed in strikes by “Turkish aircraft and drones” in Iraqi Kurdistan.