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Turkey stages artillery strikes on Kurd fighters in Iraq

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Turkish forces fired a missile towards the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, from the Turkish side of the border. [AFP]

Turkey staged new artillery strikes against Kurdish separatist positions in northern Iraq, the defence ministry and Iraqi sources said Saturday.

While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this month said operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq were coming to an end, a security source in northern Iraq said the latest overnight shelling was "intense".

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