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• Turkey's military attacks rebels in northern Iraq
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish warplanes attacked a group of Kurdish rebels, including senior commanders, in northern Iraq on Sunday, the military said, in another cross-border raid in retaliation for a guerrilla attack that killed 17 soldiers. The ...
• U.S.-Iraq security pact faces hurdles
The Americans show no interest in committing themselves to any deadline or timetable and they think that such process depends on the situation on the ground," Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman said. Privately, Pentagon officials closely involved in the ...
• Battle kills 15 Turkish soldiers
ANKARA, Turkey - Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army and air force in southern Turkey and northern Iraq has killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, the military said Saturday, in the deadliest battle between the longtime enemies ...
• 7 GIs die in Iraq helicopter crash
The balloting has been delayed due to Kurdish objections to power-sharing proposals for the oil-rich Kirkuk region in northern Iraq, which Kurds want to annex into their semiautonomous region. The U.N. issued a plan that would enable elections to be ...
• Governor's assistant killed in northern Iraq
The balloting has been delayed due to Kurdish objections to power-sharing proposals for oil-rich Kirkuk, which Kurds want to annex into their semiautonomous region. The U.N. issued a plan that would enable elections to be held in all provinces except ...