"Three people, including the
Witnesses in the city said checkpoints had been quickly set up inside and around the neighbourhood of Ainkawa, which hosts numerous restaurants and the
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...confirmed that an "employee" at its Arbil consulate was killed in a shooting.
The attack was not immediately claimed.
Turkey is waging a major military offensive in Iraq's mountainous northern region to root out pockets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The PKK, seen as a "terrorist" group by Turkey, the United States and the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union, has waged an insurgency against the
Several rocket attacks have targeted diplomatic missions in Iraq in recent months, including rockets near the US and the UK embassies in Baghdad's "Green Zone."