Clash opposing PKK-backed Yazidi group, Shiite paramilitary leaves several casualties

ERBIL, Iraq – An Iraqi Yazidi group backed by Turkish Kurds and Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite paramilitary clashed on Friday near the border with Syria, a local security official said.

Several people were wounded and possibly killed.

The confrontation broke out at the checkpoints that separates the Yazidis' YBS, considered a branch of PKK, a Turkish Kurd separatist group, and Popular Mobilisation, a coalition of mainly paramilitary groups trained and armed by Iran, said a security official in the Yazidi Sinjar region in northwest Iraq. YBS stands for Sinjar Resistance Units.