The Turkish military killed 16 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in an operation backed by air power near the Iranian border and another six militants elsewhere in southeast Turkey, the armed forces said on Monday.
Monday, 16 May, 2016
Turkey: Turkish military says killed 22 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in clashes
Friday, 13 May, 2016
Turkey: 8 Turkish troops killed, army helicopter downed in anti-PKK operations
Six Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with Kurdish militants in Turkish Kurdistan, the southeast of the country, while two more lost their lives when a military helicopter sent to the scene crashed, the army said.
The six troops were killed and eight others wounded in fighting with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) near a military base in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province.
Thursday, 12 May, 2016
Ukraine: 1 soldier killed and 3 critically wounded in eastern Ukraine
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 11 times in the past day.
One soldier is dead, three others are in critical condition after stepping on a landmine. Ukraine’s military spokesperson also says there were about a dozen shellings overnight.
Tuesday, 10 May, 2016
Turkey: 3 killed and 45 wounded in car bombing blamed on Kurds
A car bomb on Tuesday struck a police vehicle that was carrying officers escorting seven recently detained Kurdish militants in the mainly-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, killing three people and wounding 45 others, officials said.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack in Diyarbakir’s Baglar neighborhood, but the state-run Anadolu Agency said it was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, as the bus was passing by.
Sunday, 8 May, 2016
Turkey: 55 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants killed as Turkish military hits positions in Syria
The Turkish military hit Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria on May 7, killing 55 ISIL militants.
Reconnaissance and surveillance vehicles spotted ISIL positions in the Suran region north of Aleppo and the Baragidah and Kuşacık regions northeast of Tal el Hişn, security sources said.