Saturday, June 19, 2010

AFP: Kurdish rebels kill 10 Turkish soldiers near Iraq

"Kurdish rebels kill 10 Turkish soldiers near Iraq

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

ANKARA — Kurdish rebels killed 10 Turkish soldiers in an attack on an army post and a mine explosion near the border with Iraq, prompting retaliatory air raids on rebel outposts, the army said Saturday.

The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack which killed eight soldiers at a military post near the city of Semdinli close to the Iraqi border, PKK spokesman Ahmed Denis told AFP in the Iraqi Kurdistan regional capital of Arbil."

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