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Two Iraqis killed, three wounded by Iranian artillery at border
 (KUNA) -- Two Iraqi civilians were killed on Saturday and three others were wounded when Iranian artillery shelled a number of villages near Qandeel Mountain at the Iraqi-Iranian border, an Iraqi Kurdish source told reporters. Turkish and Iranian tanks and troops had been deployed along the borders with Iraq over the past few weeks, and many Kurds had left their positions on the borders after four days of Iranian shelling.Officials in Iraqi Kurdistan also reported that Turkey had shelled a number of Iraqi villages in the area, while fleeing families set up tents behind Qandeel Mountain and some six villages were totally evacuated. And in Kirkuk, a police source told KUNA that an Iraq civilian was killed and five others were wounded when an explosive device blew up in front of one of the shops in Huwaija Market. Furthermore, the US Army said in a statement that joint forces killed 97 terrorists and arrested 501 others in operations that commenced on July 9 in Baghdad. The statement added that 59 weapons caches were also discovered. According to the statement, 30,000 troops were taking orders from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki with the aim of instilling security in the capital. Posted by: Fred 2006-08-20 |
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