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Terrorist YPG/PKK ringleader dies at Iraqi hospital

Anadolu Agency MIDDLE EAST
Published March 12,2026
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Salih Muslim, the ringleader of the YPG/PKK terrorist group, died at a hospital in Erbil in northern Iraq where he had been receiving treatment, according to media reports.

The Erbil-based Rudaw Media Network reported Muslim's death but provided no further details.

PKK is a terrorist organization that killed at least 40,000 people in a decades-long terror campaign in Türkiye and the YPG is its Syrian offshoot.