Turkey stages new air attack on Kurd rebels in Iraq: army
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Turkey's military said it attacked Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq Saturday for the third time in less than a week, bombing and shelling positions and warning more will follow.
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Turkish warplanes destroyed about 60 Kurdish rebel positions in neighbouring Iraq in a bombing raid earlier this week, the military said Friday.
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ISTANBUL - Turkish warplanes and helicopters yesterday attacked the broad mountain passes that Kurdish separatist rebels use to travel from hide-outs in northern Iraq into Turkey, the state-run Anatolian News Agency reported.
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The attacks are the first time that Turkish warplanes have been employed in assaults against the Kurdish rebels.
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A Turkish offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq would have major consequences, Iraq's foreign minister says.
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CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes and troops have attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq and forces were being built up on the border, but Ankara was holding back from any major strike for now, military sources said on Wednesday.
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Turkish planes bombed an area  of Iraq near the border with Turkey on Tuesday to attack  Kurdish separatists and the army said it had killed at least  150 guerrillas in its air offensive earlier this month.
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Turkey said dozens of its warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets as deep as 60 miles inside northern Iraq for three hours Sunday, the largest aerial attack in years against the outlawed separatist group. Turkey's military chief said the U.S. gave intelligence and tacit approval for the raid.
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ISTANBUL -- Turkish artillery shelled suspected positions of Kurdish rebels based across the border in northern Iraq yesterday, according to reports. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Turkey that it risked expanding regional tensions with any "robust" move of troops into Iraq.
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Two Turkish airstrikes this month destroyed more than 200 Kurdish rebel targets in the mountains of northern Iraq, killing hundreds of insurgents, the military said Tuesday.
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Turkish helicopters and fighter jets  pounded Kurdish rebel positions on Friday as diplomatic efforts  began in Ankara to avert a major offensive against the  guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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DAHUK, Iraq/CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes attacked a village in northern Iraq 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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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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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 forces have killed hundreds of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq in the past 10 days, Turkey's military says.
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Turkish troops have shelled suspected Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq, a government official said Wednesday, as military and civilian leaders were expected to discuss the scope and duration of a cross-border incursion.
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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.