Posted AT 4:44 AM EDT on 18/12/07
Turkish soldiers cross border into northern Iraq
KIRKUK, IRAQ — The Turkish army sent soldiers about three kilometres into northern Iraq in an overnight operation on Tuesday, Kurdish officials said. A Turkish official said the troops were still in Iraq by midmorning.
The troops crossed into an area near the border with Iran, about 120 kilometres north of the city of Irbil, said Jabar Yawar, a spokesman for Kurdistan's Peshmerga security forces.
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