Iraqi media reported that “a missile attack was carried out on the base of the Turkish army in Bamarni in the province of Dahuk in the north of the country.”

On July 26, Russia Today reported that “Turkish military aircraft bombed the area near the village of Seri in Nikhili in the province of Dahuk in northern Iraq in the morning.” Last week, a tourist resort in this northern Iraqi province on the border with Turkey was hit by a similar shelling that killed 9 people and injured several others, and Baghdad blamed Turkish forces.

And on Sunday, July 24, an Iraqi political source told the Russian news agency Sputnik: “We have received information that Turkey has asked the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, Masrour Barzani, to go to Baghdad to soften the position of the Iraqi government after the measures taken.” And the Iraqi escalation in response to the Turkish bombing that killed and wounded dozens of civilians in the resort of Dahuk,” without providing further details on the matter.