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Al-Araby
Residents in Sinjar are concerned about further instability after the Iraqi army clashed with a Yazidi militia believed to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Monday, with many fearing that this skirmish might be linked to Turkey’s Operation Claw Locklaunched against the PKK in Metina, Zap and Avasin-Basyan areas of the Iraqi Kurdistan region early that day. “Clashes erupted after the Ezidxane Security Forces in the Dokuri compound of the Sinuni district in Sinjar refused a request by the Iraqi army to evacuate a checkpoint in the area,” a well-informed source from Sinuni t…