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Dead include seven police officers and four civilians, three of the wounded in serious condition; no immediate claim of responsibility
A rush-hour car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying riot police killed 11 people and wounded 36 others Tuesday, Istanbul’s governor said.
Turkey’s military says its forces have killed 27 Kurdish rebels in Hakkari province near the Turkish border with Iraq and Iran.
In a statement issued Sunday, it said air strikes carried out Friday killed 20 fighters of the Kurdish Worker’s Party, or PKK, in Semdinli district.
Eight Turkish soldiers were wounded in a roadside PKK bomb attack in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir province Friday, regional governor’s office said.
According to a statement issued by the Diyarbakir Governor’s Office, PKK terrorists detonated the bomb on the single lane Diyarbakir-Silvan road when a military vehicle passed by.
The Defense Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh says overnight June 1-2 Azerbaijan fired sniper rifles and AGS-17 grenade launcher at the Nagorno Karabakh line of contact.
The NKR Defense Ministry’s announcement reads: “Overnight June 1-2 the situation, in general, was calm in the line of contact between Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.
Turkish military sources have said their forces killed a total of 104 Daesh terrorists in Syria on Friday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, Turkish military sources said Saturday that their artillery killed the terrorists who were on the verge of firing rockets towards nearby Turkey.