Turkish army claims massive toll from Iraq raid

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Source: AFP

ANKARA (AFP) — The Turkish military Tuesday claimed to have inflicted massive losses on Kurdish rebels in bombing raids in northern Iraq as Iraqi Kurdish officials reported a fresh Turkish air strike ...

Turkish warplanes launched another raid in northern Iraq on Tuesday, according to an official from the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga security force ...

The strike lasted around 10 minutes shortly after midday, and hit the villages of Rikan, Shezee and Samjuhu in the border region of Al-Amadiyah.

"The villages were deserted," the official said on condition of anonymity ...



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Classic vacuous doublespeak: attacking deserted villages while dealing a hard blow to the enemy.