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Half Iraqis killed in October died in one attack

Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed Monday.

Turkey: 25 Kurdish rebels killed in air strikes

Turkey's military said Friday that its air strikes in northern Iraq last week killed 25 Kurdish rebels and wounded many more.

Iraq's Talabani had heart surgery in US

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was discharged Thursday from the Mayo Clinic after undergoing successful surgery on a heart valve, his office announced.

Iraqi officials: Turkey hits Kurdish bases in Iraq

Turkish jets struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets close to the border in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday.

Kurds Say Iran Shells Northern Iraq

Iranian artillery shelled three border towns Sunday in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish rebels are believed to be operating, an Iraqi Kurdish official said.

Kurdish Rebels Free 8 Turkish Soldiers

Kurdish rebels released eight Turkish soldiers in northern Iraq on Sunday two weeks after they were captured in a deadly ambush that intensified pressure on the Turkish government to attack the guerrillas in Iraq.

Car Bombs Kill 24 in Iraq

A suicide bomber drove his truck into a police station north of Baghdad on Monday, crumbling the squat concrete building and damaging a nearby school in the deadliest in a series of blasts that killed at least 24 people across Iraq.

Kurdish Rebels Attack Turkish Outpost

Kurdish rebels fired rockets and grenades at a Turkish military outpost Monday, killing seven soldiers in an attack that heightened tension at a time when Ankara has threatened military action against the rebels in northern Iraq.

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Bush to blame for frayed US-Turkish ties
Source: Turkishdailynews

United States President George W. Bush's administration is largely responsible for the worsening of U.S.-Turkey relations and unless Bush gives credible assurances to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan concerning the fight against separatist Kurdish terrorism in their Nov.

Attacks cross Iraq-Turkey border
Source: CNN

IRBIL, Iraq (CNN) -- Turkish troops shelled farmland around a half-dozen villages in northern Iraq from across the tense border, an Iraqi Kurdish official said Sunday, in what the Turkish military called retaliation for weekend attacks by Kurdish rebels.

NPR : Turkish General Warns U.S. Ties on Ice
Source: NPR

Turkey's top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.

Iraq: Baghdad Demands Iran Stop Shelling North
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Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, is demanding Iran stop shelling areas in the Kurdish administered area of northern Iraq.

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