KURDISH resistance fighters claimed to have killed six Turkish soldiers in a revenge attack on Thursday, as battle continues to rage in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.

A Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) unit launched what it described as “a revolutionary offensive” against a Turkish military vehicle in Colemerg, causing the deaths and injuring two other soldiers.

In a statement, the PKK said that the operation was “carried out in retaliation for six of our comrades who were martyred with chemical weapons in Gry Sur in a brutal attack […] by the Turkish occupation army.”