The Counter-Terrorism Service in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq announced today, Thursday, that "ten members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in two separate attacks carried out by Turkey using drones in northern Iraq." Turkey regularly conducts airstrikes in northern Iraq and has dozens of observation points on Iraqi territory, but it has intensified its drone attacks in recent weeks. Turkey, the United States, and the European Union classify the PKK, which has bases throughout northern Iraq, as a terrorist organization. The group began an armed insurgency in southeastern Turkey in 1984, which has claimed more than 40,000 lives to date.