As Turkey’s military on Saturday claimed it had killed 150 Kurdish separatists in airstrikes in northern Iraq and a rebel spokesman disputed the account, those caught in the crossfire were struggling to survive in tent cities and even caves.
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Kurdish lawmakers agreed Wednesday to a six-month delay of a
referendum on whether the oil-rich city of Kirkuk should join the
semiautonomous region of Kurdistan or remain under Iraqi central
government control.
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Turkish jets bombed several villages in northern Iraq early Sunday
in the most aggressive action in years against Kurdish rebels who
take sanctuary in the Kurdistan border region of Iraq.
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Eight Turkish soldiers captured by Kurdish separatists were
released Sunday, helping ease a standoff between two of Washington’s
most trusted regional allies.
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It is a land of resistance, the mountain peaks and winding valleys
where Iraq’s Kurds battled Saddam Hussein for decades.
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The Turkish government cautioned Thursday that it alone would
decide whether to launch a major assault into northern Iraq to crush
Kurdish rebels, striking a defiant note as a high-ranking Iraqi
delegation arrived in Ankara and
U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker
urged a peaceful solution.
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Turkish forces continued to lob artillery rounds at the remote
mountain hide-outs of Kurdish guerrillas Wednesday as diplomats from
Baghdad and Ankara met to discuss ways to avert an incursion into
Iraqi Kurdistan.
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The Iraqi government on Tuesday vowed to crack down on Kurdish
rebels in a bid to avert a major incursion by Turkish forces into
northern Iraq.
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Escalating hostilities near Iraq’s northern border, Kurdish rebels
ambushed a Turkish army patrol on Sunday, killing at least 12
soldiers and raising the specter of a major cross-border retaliation
by Turkey.
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A cholera outbreak in northern Iraq, where thousands of people
have sought refuge from sectarian violence, is overwhelming hospitals
and has killed as many as 10 people, health officials said Friday.
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