By DPA
Baghdad : Turkish fighter planes launched a new strike against Kurdish rebels based in the mountainous border area of northern Iraq, police sources from the northern Iraqi town of Duhuk said Sunday.
According to Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency, the strikes hit an uninhabited area only 8 km from the Turkish-Iraqi border. No loss of life was reported in the aerial bombardment that took place overnight close to dawn, according to the police.
The Turkish artillery bombed several villages in the area known as Jabal Qandil in the northern Kurdish region Dec 16, killing at least one person.
Turkish forces then began an incursion into the northern area of Iraq Tuesday in hot pursuit of Kurdish rebels belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which attacks southern Turkey from its bases across the border.