A Kurdish rebel group said on Friday that Turkey's air force carried out air strikes on border areas of north Iraq, but gave no details about casualties or damage.
A Kurdish rebel group said on Friday that
Turkey
's air
force carried out air strikes on border areas of north
Iraq
, but
gave no details about casualties or damage.
"On March 8, between
6:00
pm
(1500 GMT) and
8:00 pm
(1700
GMT), F-16 jet fighters belonging to the occupation army of
Turkey
launched air raids" against the Jabal Mattine area, the Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) said in a statement.
It gave no further details.
The air strikes were the first reported raids in around a month on north
Iraq
's
autonomous Kurdish region, where the PKK maintains rear bases.
Fighting between Turkish forces and PKK rebels has escalated in recent months.
In October,
Turkey
launched a major air and land offensive against the rebels in the southeast of the
country and in neighbouring northern
Iraq
after
24 of its troops were killed in a night-time ambush by rebels.
The PKK took up arms in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking
a conflict that has claimed about 45,000 lives. It is labelled a terrorist
outfit by
Ankara
and
much of the international community.
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