Iraqi security sources said that the Turkish Zilkan base, northeast of the city of Mosul, the center of Nineveh Governorate, was attacked by a missile this morning, Wednesday.
These sources added that 8 missiles targeted the Turkish camp and landed in its vicinity, without recording any casualties.
The Counter-Terrorism Service in the Kurdistan region of Iraq also confirmed the targeting of the Turkish military base with 8 missiles today, and said that two of them fell inside the base.
The Turkish news channel "NTV" quoted officials as saying that the "Bashiqa base" of the Turkish military forces in northern Iraq was attacked this morning, and that these missiles fell in the vicinity of the base without suffering any losses, and no casualties or injuries were recorded in this regard. attack.
For its part, an unknown armed faction called "Liwaa Ahrar al-Iraq" claimed responsibility for targeting the Zilkan base with 20 Grad missiles.
This faction said in a statement, a copy of which Al-Jazeera Net obtained, that its missile unit targeted what it called the "military base of the Turkish occupation" with 20 Grad missiles at exactly 7:36 (according to local time) this morning.
The Free Iraqi Brigade pledged to continue its operations against the "occupier" in the event that it did not withdraw from Iraqi territory "immediately and completely" and to expand it to include "military sites inside Turkish territory in the event that the occupation remains," according to the statement.