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One reported dead in fight between Kurdish groups in Iraq

A peshmerga soldier in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq reportedly died during a fight with the PKK on Sunday amid tensions between the two groups as well as with Turkey.

Members of the Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga forces attend a handover and US military and logistic assistance distribution ceremony to the Peshmerga Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the Arbil the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq on November 10, 2020. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of the Kurdish peshmerga forces attend a handover and US military and logistic assistance distribution ceremony to the Peshmerga Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, on Nov. 10, 2020. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images

Clashes between Kurdish armed groups in northern Iraq reportedly led to one death on Sunday.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters shot at peshmerga forces in a small town in northwestern Dahuk province on Sunday night. One peshmerga soldier died as a result, a peshmerga officer told the Iraqi Kurdish news outlet Rudaw.

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