Turkey attacks Kurd rebels in Iraq
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Turkish warplanes and long-range missiles have attacked Kurdish rebel positions in the mountains of northern Iraq near the Turkish border, according to Turkish military officials.
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Separatist Kurdish guerrillas killed seven Turkish soldiers and wounded two in stepped-up attacks against the military in southeastern Turkey, local authorities said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD - The Turkish military said it continued attacks yesterday against Kurdish separatists in mountainous areas along the Turkish-Iraqi border, as officials of the two countries and the United States gathered to attempt to diffuse the crisis.
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Turkey said Friday it would continue its military operations against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, after several attacks this month against members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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DAHUK, Iraq/CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes attacked an Iraqi village on Wednesday, an Iraqi Kurdish security official said, but Turkey said it wanted to hold back from a major incursion to give diplomacy a chance.
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Dozens of military vehicles headed toward the Iraq border and protesters demanded tough action against Kurdish rebels on Monday, a day after 12 soldiers were killed in an ambush. The attack has pushed Turkey closer to a possible incursion into Iraq to target insurgents hiding there.
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The chief of Turkey's powerful military  General Staff accused Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq of  actively backing Turkish Kurd rebels there and said Ankara must  take action, a state news agency said on Saturday.
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Turkish warplanes hit separatist Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq early on Sunday, Turkey's military said.
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Iraq pledged on Tuesday to crack down on Kurdish separatists launching attacks on Turkey from hideouts in northern Iraq, in a bid to avert a Turkish military incursion onto its territory to hit the rebels.
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Cobra attack helicopters blasted suspected Kurdish rebel targets Tuesday near the southeastern border with Iraq in a second day of fighting in the Mount Cudi area, which has reportedly claimed the lives of three Turkish soldiers and six guerrillas
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Turkish warplanes hit eight suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, the military said, the latest in Turkeyâs moves against separatists.
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Nine Turkish soldiers were  killed overnight in a clash with Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi  border, military sources said on Sunday, in an attack that will  increase pressure on Turkey to send troops into Iraq.
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Two Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq hit more than 200 targets, the Turkish military said.
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CAIRO, Dec. 26 -- Turkey pressed an intensifying offensive against Kurdish guerrillas in neighboring Iraq on Wednesday, sending warplanes across the border to bomb suspected winter hideouts of the rebels, the Turkish military said.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkey said on Monday it will exhaust diplomatic channels before launching any military strike into northern Iraq to root out Kurdish rebels, who killed at least a dozen Turkish soldiers in fighting over the weekend.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 21 -- An audacious cross-border ambush by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers Sunday, ratcheting up pressure on the Turkish government to launch a military offensive into Iraq.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed 12 Turkish soldiers in an ambush on Sunday near the Iraqi border, forcing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks that may authorize a cross-border military offensive.