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Suspected Kurdish rebels kill 4 in bombing (AP)

June 22nd, 2010

Iraqi policemen stand at the site of a roadside bombing in the Dora area of southern Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb apparently aimed at a senior transportation official has missed its target and killed bystanders instead. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb in Istanbul Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 12 on a bus carrying military personnel and their families, the governor said.


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Turkey: May air raid killed 100 Kurdish rebels (AP)

June 18th, 2010

A Turkish soldier patrols on a road near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak, in 2008. Turkish soldiers on Wednesday crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels for the first time in two years and bombed targets across the border, killing four militants, the army said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - Turkey’s military said Friday it killed as many as 120 Kurdish rebels in an air raid on rebel hideouts in northern Iraq last month and a daylong incursion…

Turkey: Air raid killed 100 Kurdish rebels May 20 (AP)

June 18th, 2010

A Turkish soldier patrols on a road near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak, in 2008. Turkish soldiers on Wednesday crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels for the first time in two years and bombed targets across the border, killing four militants, the army said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - More than 100 Kurdish rebels were killed in an air raid over northern Iraq last month, Turkey’s military said Friday.


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Attacks threaten unusual Turkish outreach to Kurds (AP)

June 16th, 2010

FILE - In this file photo of Nov. 9, 2007 Turkish Kurd villagers in Turkey's pre-dominantly Kurdish southeast protest a surge in attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Calisan village in the province of Sirnak near Turkish-Iraqi border southeastern Turkey. A remarkable Turkish attempt to end the country's 26-year-old fighting against Kurdish rebels by granting cultural freedoms to a minority, whose existence once rejected and barred from speaking Kurdish in public appears to have deadlocked, as a dramatic escalation in rebel violence raises the prospect of a return to the grinding warfare that has killed about 40,000 people. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Kurdish rebels have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey this month in an escalation that poses a dire threat to a remarkable attempt at ending one of the…

Iraqi official says Iranian troops cross border (AP)

June 5th, 2010

Israeli soldiers, top, fire tear gas canisters to disperse Palestinian youths during an anti-Israeli demonstration in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near the city of Nablus, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Israeli forces seized Saturday the Gaza-bound 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie aid ship without meeting resistance, preventing it from breaking the Israeli maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory days after a similar effort turned bloody. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - A senior Kurdish official in northern Iraq says Iranian troops have crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of Iranian Kurdish rebels.


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