Turkish troops kill 2 Kurdish rebels
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Soldiers killed two Kurdish militants in Turkey's rebellious southeast, where troops massed along the border threatened an incursion into Iraq.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Attack helicopters buzzed over a hilly region in southeastern Turkey yesterday looking for Kurdish rebels after troops reportedly killed 15 separatist guerrillas in a morning operation far from the increasingly tense border with Iraq.
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Two separatist Kurdish rebels were killed when a fuel tanker they were planning to ram into a military outpost in a suicide attack was fired upon and exploded before they could approach, officials said Sunday.
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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.
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Kurdish rebels killed at least  12 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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Turkish aircraft on Sunday carried out fresh attacks on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga security force.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - A Turkish soldier was killed on Monday by a Turkish rebel landmine and Turkey marked its national day in an outpouring of colorful patriotic support for the armed forces.
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Nine Turkish soldiers are killed in an ambush blamed on separatist Kurdish rebels, Turkish reports say.
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SIRNAK, Turkey  - Turkey said on Monday eight of its soldiers were missing a day after clashes with Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi border, in which at least 12 soldiers were killed.
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Israeli troops on Tuesday shot and killed two Palestinians who entered an unauthorized area in the Gaza Strip, military sources said.
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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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Dozens of Turkish military vehicles streamed toward the Iraqi border with heavy artillery and ammunition Monday after Kurdish guerrillas killed a dozen soldiers and claimed to have captured eight in an intensifying crisis threatening to spill into Iraq.
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Afghan and US-led troops killed more than 60 Taliban rebels in two days of fierce fighting, while two NATO soldiers died in separate clashes, officials said Monday.
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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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ANKARA, Turkey  -- Turkish troops have shelled suspected Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq, a government official said Wednesday, as military and civilian leaders gathered to discuss the scope and duration of a cross-border incursion.
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Washington on Sunday said it was "outraged" at an ambush by "terrorist" Kurdish rebels on a Turkish military patrol that killed at least 12 soldiers, amid spiking cross-border tensions.
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Darfur rebels have killed two policemen at a displaced persons&#39; camp in Sudan&#39;s troubled western province, violating a ceasefire agreement, the interior ministry charged on Sunday.