Turkish air raids target PKK in northern Iraq after Turkish clash
Turkish warplanes struck suspected PKK positions in northern Iraq after a deadly clash at a Turkish outpost near Semdinli. The fighting left nine Turkish soldiers and 12 PKK fighters dead, with 14 wounded, amid ongoing cross-border operations and elevated tensions in the Kurdish conflict. Turkey reported eight soldiers killed in the attack, later updated, as commando units pursued rebels across the border.
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Turkey
Iraq
Anatolia New Agency
Kurdistan Workers’ Party
PKK
Abdullah Ocalan
Semdinli
Iran
Anatolia
NTV Television
NTV
United States
European Union
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Nationalist Action Party
Mount
Qandil
Korea War Echoes Across Six Decades
A long shadow from the 1950 53 Korea conflict endures, shaping today’s world. Veterans and scholars note how the war’s stalemate and China’s entry altered U S power, regional balance, and ongoing tensions along the Korean peninsula in a portrait of a nation still divided and vigilant.
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North Korea
Paik
Seoul
War Memorial
South
U.S
China
Pusan
Walker
Ridgway
Syngman Rhee
Unsan-ni
Heartbreak Ridge
Pork Chop Hill
Kunu-ri
America
Washington
Harry Truman
National Security Council
U.S. Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Korea
Shen Zhihua
Associated Press
Mao Tse-tung
Asia
Koreas
North
U.S. Navy
Hong
Japan
Russia
Korea University
U.S. envoy calls for probe into Kyrgyz unrest
U S assistant secretary Robert Blake urged an independent inquiry into the southern Kyrgyzstan riots after hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fled. Prosecutors charged Azimzhan Askarov with inciting ethnic hatred over a video he shot.
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Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan
U.S
Kyrgyzstan
Azimzhan Askarov
Askarov
Tursunbek Akun
Bishkek
U.N
Valentina Gritsenko
Justice Rights Organization
Bazar-Korgon
Associated Press
Roza Otunbayeva
Kyrgyz
Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Bakiyev
Iskander Ikramov
Robert Blake
Otunbayeva
Uzbekistan
Blake
United States
Russia
France
Bazar - Korgon
Rwandan general wounded in South Africa attack
Lt General Kayumba Nyamwasa, accused by Rwanda of terrorism, was shot in the stomach in a Johannesburg suburb as his wife Rosette said the attack may be politically motivated and linked to Kigali. Police offered no information on suspects.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Paul Kagame
Kayumba Nyamwasa
Rosette
Foreign Ministry
Rosette Nyamwasa
Kagame
Nyamwasa
Rwanda
Kigali
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