Turkish warplanes bombing Iraq
May 28th, 2009 in Breaking News, World Alerts
Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish rebels in Iraq - Yahoo! News.
ANKARA (AFP) – Turkish warplanes early Thursday bombed “a large group” of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq after six soldiers were killed in a blast blamed on the militants, the Turkish army said.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) group, spotted in the Avashin-Basyan region along the Turkish border, “was fired on intensively and successfully hit,” the statement, posted on the army’s website, said.
It made no mention of casualties.
May 28th, 2009 in Breaking News, World Alerts
Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish rebels in Iraq - Yahoo! News.
ANKARA (AFP) – Turkish warplanes early Thursday bombed “a large group” of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq after six soldiers were killed in a blast blamed on the militants, the Turkish army said.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) group, spotted in the Avashin-Basyan region along the Turkish border, “was fired on intensively and successfully hit,” the statement, posted on the army’s website, said.
It made no mention of casualties.