ANKARA (AFP) - (AFP) - Turkish jets bombed bases in northern Iraq used by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a fresh campaign last week that killed as many as 160 rebels, the military said Monday.
"Based on the results of exploration and target analysis work held between August 23-24, Turkish air force jets efficiently hit targets of the separatist terror organisation in the Zap a [...]
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - At least 25 people, all but one of them women and children, were killed when a bus caught fire after being hit by a car in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, a police chief said.
The families were travelling on the bus from Baghdad to the northern Kurdish province of Dohuk when the vehicle got stuck in a pothole, according to Kirkuk province police chief [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Twelve people, among them six policemen, were killed and 14 others wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, security and hospital officials said.
Six policemen were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Wednesday night at a police checkpoint in Ramadi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, an officer said, adding tha [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - In Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, 35 European construction workers have languished in three crowded rooms for months without pay, living, as one said, "like animals".
Their story is a stark testament to Iraq's poor record on foreign labour, as post-war construction lures tens of thousands of overseas workers hoping for lucrative short-term contracts.
The 28 Ukrai [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Brazil great Zico is set to take over as coach of the Iraq national team, the sports daily Lance reported on Monday.
"Everything has been agreed. The only thing missing is the signature," the former Flamengo player was quoted as saying. "Everything else has been resolved."
Zico added that the contract will take him up to the Asian Games in 2013, although it is li [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - (AFP) - The Turkish military said Tuesday its air attacks on northern Iraq had killed between 90 and 100 Kurdish rebels and injured another 80 over the past few days as an Iraqi Kurdish leader called for an end to the raids.
The toll was the first issued by the army since it resumed a bombing campaign against bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Iraqi mou [...]
ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - Turkish aircraft bombed north Iraq on Monday, the sixth day of a bombing campaign against bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the region, a rebel spokesman said.
"Turkish aircraft targeted the Kortek, Qandil and Jabal Mattine regions from midday until 3:00 pm (1200 GMT)," Ahmed Denis told AFP, referring to areas that are respectively in the prov [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Ramadan may be best known for the daily dawn-to-dusk Muslim fast, but for some in Iraq the holy month is a time to enjoy a decades-old game that men play in courtyards across the country.
As security has improved nationwide, local communities have resumed organising city-wide matches of Mheibes, a fiery game where rival teams must find a ring hidden by their opponents.
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ANKARA (AFP) - (AFP) - Turkish planes carried out two raids in Iraq on Friday and bombarded 85 Kurdish rebel targets, the army announced Saturday, without giving any possible casualty figures.
Turkey resumed its bombing of positions held by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Iraq mountains after a break of more than a year following an attack on Wednesday in southeast Turkey in which nine [...]
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - A radical anti-US Shiite cleric warned of "war" if US forces stayed in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal, in a brief statement viewed on Wednesday.
Moqtada al-Sadr did not give any further details in the written reply to a follower's question, released by his office in the holy Shiite city of Najaf.
Asked whether or not he would negotiate directly [...]
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