Turk planes hit PKK targets in N.Iraq-Iraq official

Mon May 12, 2008 4:03am EDT
 
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, May 12 (Reuters) - Turkish war planes bombed Kurdish separatist PKK rebel positions in northern Iraq overnight but there were no casualties, a security spokesman in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region said on Monday.

Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga security forces, said the strikes occurred in a remote part of Dahuk province near the border with Turkey.

"There were no casualties," Yawar said.

 

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