Turkish military kills 35 militants after they try to storm base
Turkey: Turkey’s military killed 35 militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party after they attempted to storm a base in the southeastern Hakkari province early on Saturday (July 30), military officials said. The officials also said that the death toll from clashes on Friday in Hakkari had risen to eight soldiers, with 25 more wounded. Source: Reuters
45 people hospitalized after clashes between protesters and police in Yerevan
As police and protesters clash in Khorenatsi Street in Yerevan late in the evening on July 20, 45 people apply for medical assistance. The clashes occurred near the police station that has been seized by an armed group of radical oppositionists for the fourth day already. Anahit Aytayan, spokesperson for the Armenian health minister, said 25 police officers and almost as many civilians were injured in clashes. In her words, 18 people...
Clashes with Kurdish rebels devastate Turkish World Heritage site
When the United Nations inscribed the Roman-era walls of this mainly Kurdish city on its World Heritage list last year, it crowned a decade of efforts to rehabilitate a war-torn region. Within weeks, a ceasefire with Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey shattered, unleashing some of the worst fighting in a three-decade conflict and laying waste to swathes of Diyarbakir’s ancient district of Sur. Sur’s ruin casts a pall...
11 Kurdish rebels, 3 Revolutionary Guards killed in Iran
Eleven Kurdish rebels and three of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes near the Iraqi border, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday (June 28). “A group of 11 counter-revolutionaries linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), who were attempting to infiltrate the country were immediately detected… and were eliminated after 10 days of pursuit in the Sarvabad region,” said...
Four servicemen, six militants killed in clashes in southern Russia
Four Russian special forces soldiers and six militants have been killed in a series of clashes in Dagestan in the North Caucasus area, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday (June 17), citing a police source. Dagestan, where Kremlin critics say poverty and corruption help feed Islamist extremism, is often rocked by shootouts and car bombings. A suicide bomber blew up a car there in February, killing two policemen, in an attack...
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