Rebels kill 17 Turkish troops
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed 17 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others in an ambush on Sunday, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks to consider a military strike against rebel bases in Iraq.
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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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Turkey said Sunday that it was weighing an escalation of its fight against Kurdish rebels after the guerillas killed seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard.
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Fighting near a village in Sudan&#39;s crisis-plagued Darfur region killed at least 17 people Monday, while helicopters rescued dozens of workers who fled into the bush to escape.
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Russian troops killed at least 22 rebels in separatist Chechnya Monday, including a man officials said was linked to the assassination of Chechnya&#39;s pro-Moscow president, media reported.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents opened fire on a busload of laborers traveling toward a US military base in Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 of them and capping a week of violence that left at least 80 Iraqis and 20 US soldiers dead.
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International cease-fire monitors   blamed Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid   workers during fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels this month.
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Russian troops killed at least 22 rebels in separatist Chechnya on Monday, including a man officials said was linked to the assassination of Chechnya's pro-Moscow president, media reported.
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An attack by Maoist rebels in eastern India has killed at least 17 people, according to reports.
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Two Turkish soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a land mine in southeastern Turkey, and a small oil pipeline was damaged by a bomb in two attacks Sunday blamed on Kurdish rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported.
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The United States continued efforts today to steer Turkey away from a military incursion into northern Iraq, after a cross-border raid by Kurdish rebels on Sunday killed 17 Turkish soldiers and raised the prospect of an escalating conflict.
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Two Turkish troops were killed  in combat with separatist Kurdish rebels and a mine blast in  eastern Turkey, army sources said on Friday.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Two Turkish troops were killed in combat with separatist Kurdish rebels and a mine blast in eastern Turkey, army sources said on Friday.
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Left-wing Farc rebels in Colombia have killed 17 soldiers in an ambush the north-east of the country, the army says.
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Kurdish guerrillas killed a Turkish army major and injured two other soldiers Wednesday in a roadside bomb attack in southeastern Turkey, the governor's office said.
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BAGHDAD - An audacious cross-border ambush by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers yesterday, ratcheting up pressure on the Turkish government to launch a military offensive into Iraq.
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Insurgents killed 17 Iraqi police and  National Guards Monday in a string of bloody ambushes, bombings  and suicide attacks aimed at wrecking Iraq's Jan. 30 national  election.