Recently, US officials called on the governments of Iraq and Turkey to work together to address what has been called their concerns over the PKK presence in Iraq.
On the other hand, two US State Department officials emphasized, yesterday at a press conference, on the cooperation between Turkey and Iraq against the PKK, stressing on the need for a third party to enter into this cooperation, which is the region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq.
In a report on the PKK's presence in the Kurdistan Region, the British newspaper Morning Star described US pressure on the group as unprecedented.
The newspaper described the US officials' remarks as a kind of united front by Turkey, Iraq and the Kurdistan Region against the PKK.
US officials have suggested that Iraq, the Kurdistan Region - which is dissatisfied with the presence of PKK-affiliated forces in Sinjar - and Turkey try to oust the PKK from Sinjar and help a civilian management to run the Yazidi region.
Turkey has carried out several drone strikes in Sinjar over the past year. The paper also reported the US is attempting to cut ties between Syrian Kurdish forces and the PKK during talks on the presence of a US oil company in northeastern Syria.
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