Rice flies to Iraq as Turkish troops cross border
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to speed up national reconciliation on a trip overshadowed by an incursion by several hundred Turkish troops into northern Iraq.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Baghdad on Tuesday to see top Iraqi officials after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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ANKARA/SULAIMANIYA  - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Turkey's general staff said, in their fourth such cross-border raid in five days.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâs visit comes after Turkey bombed Kurdish militants in Iraq on Sunday.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes bombed important Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intervened to ward off a strike by Turkey in northern Iraq after Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers.
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Turkish helicopters ferried more troops to the border with Iraq on Friday as diplomatic efforts got under way in Ankara to avert a major offensive against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq.
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Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships reportedly pounded Kurdish rebel positions along the Turkey-Iraq border Wednesday, broadening military operations against insurgents amid persistent fears Turkey will launch a major offensive inside 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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The U.S. 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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A Turkish Army official said that the U.S. had offered intelligence and clearance to enter Iraqi airspace.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met top Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Tuesday after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit Tuesday to Kirkuk in the oil-rich Kurdish region
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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul left here on Monday to attend the Iraq conference in Egypt&#39;s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Turkey's army has boosted troop levels in the restive southeast to more than 200,000, most of them stationed along the border with Iraq, security sources told Reuters on Friday.
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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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SULAIMANIYA/ANKARA  - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday in their fourth such cross-border raid in five days, Turkey's general staff said on Wednesday.