Baghdad, Oct 26, 2026 (AFP) - PKK-linked Yazidi group to hand over arms to Iraqi government

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2026-10-26

The Iraqi government on Monday announced that a Yazidi armed group with ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was handing over its weapons and integrating into the state's forces. The Sinjar Protection Units, located in northern Iraq for over a decade, is made up of fighters from the Yazidi minority that faced massacres by the Islamic State group when it seized swathes of Iraq between 2014 and 2017. The group has ties to the PKK, which is con......

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