ISTANBUL, March 29 (Reuters) - Turkey's army killed 15 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Thursday using long-range land weapons, it said on Saturday. It followed up the attack on the Kurdish separatists with air strikes on Friday, the Chief of General Staff said on its website. (Reporting by Emma Ross-Thomas)
Plumes of smoke rise from Baghdad's Kadhmiya district March 27, 2008. Residents said clashes erupted between U.S. forces and the Mahdi Army. Iraq's U.S.-backed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed on Thursday ...