On Iraqi mountain fortress, anti-Turkish fighters rule
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN, Iraq  - On the way to the Qandil mountains, a potential flashpoint for yet another Middle East war, Kurdish officials give blunt assessments of the limits of their sovereignty and power to curb anti-Turkish guerrillas.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Perched on a hillside overlooking the mountainous northern Iraqi border, Kurds in the southeastern Turkish town of Sirnak are nervously monitoring preparations for a possible cross-border military operation.
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The talks aim to avert an incursion by Turkeyâs military into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish separatist rebels.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 23 -- Turkish warplanes bombarded areas of northern Iraq for the second straight day Sunday, according to an Iraqi Kurdish official, as part of Turkey's ongoing campaign to combat Kurdish guerrillas living in the mountainous border region.
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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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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Deep in the mountains of northern Iraq, a cluster of mud huts and the chatter of machine gun fire reveal another piece of the jigsaw puzzle called Kurdistan.
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Turkey has declared several areas near the border with Iraq to be "temporary security zones" in a sign of increasing activity by the military in its campaign against Kurdish rebels.
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Turkey is considering a ground operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, private broadcaster CNN Turk quoted Foreign Minister Ali Babacan as saying on Tuesday.
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From south and north, Iraq's Kurdish region felt pressure from two sides Saturday, as saboteurs bombed a vital bridge link to Baghdad, and Turkish troops across the border massed for a possible strike.
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Iraqi delegates are heading to Ankara in an effort to avert attacks by Kurdish rebels over the Turkish border.
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Turkey's foreign minister rejected any cease-fire by Kurdish rebels Tuesday as he met with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad to press them to crack down on the guerrillas. Turkish forces massed on the border and tensions rose over a threatened military incursion.
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Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdish rebel  positions across the border in the mountains of northern Iraq  early on Sunday, the military General Staff said in a  statement.
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IRBIL, Iraq - The most senior leader in Iraq's Kurdish region appeared to raise the stakes in the standoff over northern Iraq yesterday, warning Turkey that the region would defend itself against any cross-border military strike on rebel bases.
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A group of Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, local officials say, after warning against Kurdish rebels there.
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Iraq has vowed to do all it can to disrupt the PKK fighters sheltering in its border region with Turkey.
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BIYARA, Iraq -- During the two years that Ansar al-Islam ruled this mountain redoubt, its secular Kurdish population had to learn to live under a brutal Islamic code modeled on the Taliban.
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MADERIYAH, Iraq -- Saad Mahami wanted more firepower. He didn't trust the Iraqi government to give him support, so inside Patrol Base Whiskey, at the edge of this village south of Baghdad, he told U.S. commanders that his 71 Sunni fighters needed additional weapons to fight the insurgent group al...