Tension in the Kurdish region is increased by the blast at the airport in northern Iraq

 


In the semi-autonomous Kurdish area of northern Iraq, an explosion occurred close to the Suleimaniyah International Airport on Friday, according to local authorities.

The explosion happened a few days after Turkiye banned flights to and from the airport, claiming an alleged rise in militant Kurdish activities endangering flight safety.

Turkiye has fought Kurdish rebels in the east for years. Large Kurdish populations may also be found in Syria and Iraq, which are nearby.

The explosion was reportedly caused by a Turkish drone strike on Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the primary US-backed and Kurdish-led group in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition war monitor.

In northeast Syria, representatives of the SDF and the Kurdish regional administration disputed that Abdi was in Suleimaniyah at the time or had been attacked.

Abdi is "carrying on his work and is in northeast Syria," according to Fethullah Al-Husseini, a spokesperson of the Kurdish self-rule administration there.

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