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A drone strike killed a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) commander on Tuesday in northern Iraq, Kurdish authorities said, blaming the strike on Turkey. Turkey has carried out ground and air operations in northern Iraq against positions of the PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state. “A Turkish drone targeted a vehicle belonging to PKK fighters, killing a senior military commander and seriously wounding two other fighters” in the mountainous Sinjar region, the counterterrorism services of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region said in a statement. Turkey’s armed force…