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Global Report - 29-August-2008

Ground Report — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:24:56 +0000

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Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish rebel target in Iraq

AP — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:46:34 +0000

Turkish warplanes hit a suspected Kurdish rebel target in northern Iraq, Turkey’s military said Sunday.

Kirkuk dispute fuels ethnic tensions in Iraq

AP — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:51:16 +0000

Minutes after a suicide bomber killed 25 people, hundreds of angry Kurds stormed the headquarters of an ethnic Turkish group in this northern Iraqi city and torched the building and nearby parked...

Iran kills 3 Kurdish separatists in clash

AP — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:18:44 +0000

Iranian state radio says three Kurdish separatists and one Iranian soldier were killed in a shootout in the northwest of the country.

Roadside bombing in Turkey kills 9 soldiers

AP — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:16:27 +0000

A roadside bomb exploded in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing nine soldiers who were on their way back from an operation against Kurdish rebels, an official said. Two other soldiers were...

Roadside bomb kills 8 soldiers in Turkey

AP — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:12:48 +0000

A roadside bomb killed eight soldiers and wounded three in eastern Turkey on Monday, an official said.

Kurdish rebels threaten more attacks in Turkey

AP — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:52:14 +0000

Kurdish rebels threatened on Friday to stage more attacks on economic targets in Turkey, days after claiming responsibility for a fire at a key oil pipeline, a pro-Kurdish news agency...

Tensions run high in Iraq over disputed Kirkuk

AP — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:18:16 +0000

More than 1,000 Sunni Arabs and Turkomen staged a demonstration Saturday to protest calls by Kurds to annex the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to their autonomous region as Iraqi officials met in Baghdad to defuse tension over the disputed...

Baghdad warns against tensions in disputed Kirkuk

AP — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:23:50 +0000

Iraq’s central government on Friday stressed its opposition to any unilateral move to change the status of an oil-rich city the Kurds want to annex and warned against efforts to stir ethnic tensions in that...

Turkish warplanes bomb PKK targets in Iraq

AP — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:29:39 +0000

Turkey’s military says its warplanes have bombed 12 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.