Turkish warplanes bomb northern Iraq

Baghdad unrest kills five, wounds 14
Baghdad (AFP) June 28, 2010 - Attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad killed two women civilians and an intelligence officer on Monday, while two policemen died trying to defuse a bomb, medical and security sources said. Several unidentified gunmen stormed into a house in the Sunni Arab Dora district of south Baghdad, killing the two women in an attack that also wounded four other people, two of them women, police said. In the Harthiya district in the west of the capital, a magnetic bomb attached to the car of an intelligence officer killed its target and wounded four civilian bystanders, the interior ministry said. In the city centre, two policemen died and four others were injured as they tried to defuse a roadside bomb on Sheikh Omar Street, police and medical officials said. Another two people were wounded when a magnetic bomb exploded in Karrada, a busy commercial district of the capital.

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Arbil, Iraq (AFP) June 28, 2010
Turkish warplanes bombed northern Iraq on Monday, the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and an Iraqi Kurdish official said, as Ankara stepped up its riposte to increased fighting with the rebels.

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the air raids, which began at midday (0900 GMT) and targeted the Sidakan district of Arbil province in the mountainous northeast of Iraq.

"So far they have resulted in fires breaking out in forests and fields in the mountains," Sidakan district commissioner Ahmed Qadr told AFP.

PKK spokesman Ahmed Denis said: "The bombing targeted Kurdish nomads in the border area. We don't yet know the extent of the damage or casualties."

Turkey has launched repeated air raids and two ground incursions against suspected PKK rear-bases in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq in recent weeks.

They came as the Turkish army suffered its deadliest 48 hours in two years in its battle with the PKK.

On June 19-20, the rebels killed 12 Turkish soldiers in multiple attacks inside Turkey prompting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pledge to fight the PKK "to the end".

Three more soldiers and a civilian were killed in further rebel attacks on June 21 and 24.

And on June 22, a PKK splinter group bombed a Turkish military bus in Istanbul, killing five soldiers and a 17-year-old girl.

Blacklisted as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, the PKK took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives, according to the Turkish army.

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