Seven Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and another 13 have been injured in the conflict area in the country’s eastern regions over the past 24 hours.

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The Turkish military said on Tuesday 34 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in its latest air strikes on the group’s camps in northern Iraq’s Qandil mountain region.

Turkey has been bombing PKK targets in northern Iraq and in mostly Kurdish southeastern Turkey since July 24, in response to what it says are increased attacks by the Kurdish militants on members of the security forces.

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Local officials in Eastern Ukraine have accused pro-Russian separatists of shelling a village on the outskirts of the key government stronghold of Mariupol overnight.

Heavy blasts between Sunday night and Monday morning damaged 52 homes in Sartana, only 16 kilometres (10 miles) outside Mariupol, local government representative Stepan Mahsma said on his Facebook account. The shelling hit five homes, killing two civilians and wounding six.

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Turkey carried out airstrikes on 17 Kurdish militant targets in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Monday and Tuesday, the military said, ramping up an offensive against the insurgents.

Turkey has been buffeted by increased fighting between its military and the outlawed Kurdistan People’s Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency for greater Kurdish autonomy.

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A radical Marxist group has claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the US consulate in Istanbul.

The Iranian-linked Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front (DHKP-C) said on its website that one of its female terrorists carried out the attack.

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