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| Iraqi military sets up border posts to prevent Turkish advance as Ankara targets Kurdish rebels | Iraqi military sets up border posts to prevent Turkish advance as Ankara targets Kurdish rebels |
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| Iraqi troops are enforcing positions along the border with Turkey, to prevent Turkish forces from advancing deeper into Iraqi territory, officials said on Friday. Ankara has been conducting airstrikes fro two weeks to target Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. | |
| Security officials said Turkey has established at least a dozen posts inside Iraqi territory as part of a military campaign to rout members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK. The airborne-and-land campaign ‘Operation Claw-Tiger’ began June 17 when Turkey airlifted troops into northern Iraq. | |
| Since then, at least six Iraqi civilians have been killed as Turkish jets pound PKK targets, and several villages in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region have been evacuated, AP reported. | Since then, at least six Iraqi civilians have been killed as Turkish jets pound PKK targets, and several villages in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region have been evacuated, AP reported. |
| Iraqi border guards erected two posts along the Khankiri range, according to Brig. Delir Zebari, commander of the First Brigade of the Iraqi Border Guards, tasked with securing a 245-km (153-mile) stretch of border territory. |