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Turkish jets struck targets of the terrorist organization PKK in northern Iraq, Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Sunday. "Turkish airplanes have effectively hit a PKK target across the ...

   President Abdullah Gül could play a minimizing role in what United States investors call political risks for Turkey in 2008, Turkey analysts said after Gül's 48-hour trip to New York. ...

A car bomb attack that killed five people in the southeastern Anatolian province of Diyarbakır last week bears the hallmark of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the prime minister ...

Bhutto resented the arnity between Turkey's military leaders and former military ruler Zia ul-Haq who sent her father to the gallows. She became fond of Turkey as it embraced democracy ...

JERUSALEM - The Associated Press      Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet in Jerusalem today to try to resolve a crisis over disputed land that has paralyzed recently renewed ...

Large numbers of Turkish fighter jets have bombed suspected Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, reports say. Turkish officials said the warplanes had targeted the Kurdistan Workers´ Party (PKK), in ...

Turkey eyes law to get PKK members to quit: report Turkey´s government is considering a new law to encourage members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to leave the separatist ...

Long-time rivals Turkey and Greece agree on further confidence-building measures that include an expansion of military ties through a joint military unit for multinational peacekeeping tasks. Greece supports Turkey's bid ...

 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Friday that the government authorized an incursion by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) into northern Iraq on Nov. 28 to crack down on the outlawed Kurdistan ...

AtlasJet Airlines plane crashed in the mountains in south-west Turkey on Friday, killing all 56 people on board.  Private AtlasJet Airlines Chief Executive Tuncay Doğaner said the cause of the ...

About 550 Australian combat troops in Iraq should be withdrawn by about the middle of next year, Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd said on Friday, setting a broad timetable for the ...

  Osama bin Laden is calling on European nations to end their support of "America´s oppression" in Afghanistan in an audiotape message just releasedBin Laden says he was responsible for ...

Police in the West Bank have clashed with mourners at a funeral for a man killed during protests against the Middle East talks in the United States. Witnesses said Palestinian ...

NATO air-strikes killed 12 civilian road workers in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Wednesday, an incident bound to fuel Afghan resentment against the presence of international forces. NATO ...

US and Turkey discuss PKK measures   Senior US generals have met Turkish army representatives to discuss cracking down on Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.  General David Petraeus, chief US commander ...

The landmark pipeline will provide Europe with its first supply of natural gas from the Caspian region bypassing Russia and carry the gas from Central Asia to Europe via Turkey ...

Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been ...

  Plans by President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to attack Iran have been at least temporarily derailed by the mounting crisis in Pakistan. Not only is this ...

UN nuclear watchdog agency chief´s warning that there was no proof Iran seeks atomic weapons , and invited him to stay out of diplomacy with Tehran. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The ...

A military court in Moscow has sentenced a Russian officer to seven years in prison for spying for Poland. Maj Sergei Yurenya was put on trial in August, accused of ...

Iraq, Afghan wars could cost US 2.4 trillion WASHINGTON (AFP) - The total cost, including debt servicing, of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach 2.4 trillion dollars ...

Bush is trying to shore up international opposition against Iran George Bush, the US president, has urged Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, to keep pressing Iran to abandon its nuclear ...

Iraq has pledged to help Turkey in its attempt to tackle fighters from the Kurdistan Workers´ party (PKK) who are based in northern Iraq.Hoshiyar Zebari, Iraq´s foreign minister, signalled Baghdad´s ...

Four members of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, were wounded at dawn Monday after the IOF troops bombarded their position in northern Gaza. Local sources told ...

 British special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard´s Al-Quds special forces, Sunday Times writes ...

Tens of thousand of Turkish troops are deployed in the southeast of Turkey near the Iraq border Kurdish fighters based in northern Iraq have offered a ceasefire if Turkey abandons plans to ...