Update 2025-02-19 (2): According to reports, there are violent clashes in Duhok around the village of Blafa. No casualties have been reported so far.
Update 2025-02-19 (1): According to reports on Wednesday (19 February), the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that it had killed at least nine suspected PKK fighters in the Gara and Hakurk regions of northern Iraq. In addition, Turkish artillery bombarded suspected PKK positions on Mount Matin, (Al-Amadiyah district) north of Duhok. On Tuesday (18 February), the ministry announced the neutralization of two PKK members in the Kurdistan Region.