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Turkey’s military has confirmed further air strikes against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq.
It said nine attacks were carried out by Turkish aircraft on hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), mostly in the Qandil region.
Last Wednesday the military said it had carried out similar strikes, a day after eight Turkish soldiers and 26 PKK rebels were killed in clashes.
Turkish soldiers and Kurdish fighters clashed in the most intense battles of the separatist conflict this year, with 18 people killed in three army outposts in the southeast, Turklsh officials and security sources say.
Up to 100 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters launched simultaneous attacks at dawn on Tuesday on the three military observation points in Hakkari province near the mountainous border with Iraq, killing eight soldiers and wounding 16, the sources said.
The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan’s separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region said that one of its soldiers was killed and two wounded in shootouts with Azerbaijani forces overnight.
The statement says the incident occurred when “Azerbaijani troops attempted to enter the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.”
Baku considers Nagorno-Karabakh — an ethnic Armenian separatist enclave — its territory.
The Spanish government has refused to hold talks with Basque separatist group ETA.
The militant organisation, which has been blamed for 829 deaths over four decades, announced an end to violence seven months ago.
In a statement released to the French press, ETA says it wants to negotiate with the government.
At least 12 people were killed in twin blasts in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, a spokesman for the republic’s interior ministry said on Friday.
“Twelve people died - three civilians, three rescuers, the remaining [victims] are police officers. Casualty reports are still being verified,” the spokesman said.