BAGHDAD, June 9--The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Saturday issued a formal protest to Turkey over cross-border shelling targeting Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq.
A rebel representative said the firing had not affected their bases. Saturday's protest followed a warning by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Turkey risked expanding regional tensions with any military incursion into Iraq.
A statement said Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Mahmoud had summoned the Turkish charge d'affaires and called for an immediate halt to the shelling, saying such actions "undermine confidence between the two nations and negatively affect their friendship.''
A Turkish Foreign Ministry official confirmed the meeting between Mahmoud and Turkish charge d'affaires Ahmet Yazal, but said it was not a "protest.''
Meanwhile, three people died in separate attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, while the US military said its troops killed six militants in a series of raids across the country.
A car bomb detonated next to a National Police patrol killing a policemen and a bystander and wounding 12 others in Baghdad's northeast neighborhood of al-Shaab, a defense official said.
A medic at Imam Ali hospital in nearby Sadr City confirmed the attack and said the bodies of the two victims were received by the facility.
Eight of the wounded were also admitted to the hospital, including six policemen, he added.
Another policeman was killed in a separate clash with armed men in the same neighborhood.
In Zafaraniyah in southern Baghdad, three people were wounded by a roadside bomb aimed at a police patrol, a medic at Ibn Nafis hospital said.
The US military, meanwhile, said its forces had carried out a series of raids on Saturday in which five militants were killed.
In a raid southeast of Fallujah, the former rebel town in the western province of Anbar, US troops targeted a weapons distributor for the Al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
Four people were killed and seven wounded in a roadside bomb attack on a minibus in eastern Baghdad, police said.
Six civilian detainees were killed and at least 50 wounded when mortars or rockets were fired into the US-run Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq, the US military said.
A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded two others in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, police said. A mortar round which landed nearby killed one civilian and wounded four others.
Source : www.alalam.ir
A rebel representative said the firing had not affected their bases. Saturday's protest followed a warning by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Turkey risked expanding regional tensions with any military incursion into Iraq.
A statement said Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Mahmoud had summoned the Turkish charge d'affaires and called for an immediate halt to the shelling, saying such actions "undermine confidence between the two nations and negatively affect their friendship.''
A Turkish Foreign Ministry official confirmed the meeting between Mahmoud and Turkish charge d'affaires Ahmet Yazal, but said it was not a "protest.''
Meanwhile, three people died in separate attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, while the US military said its troops killed six militants in a series of raids across the country.
A car bomb detonated next to a National Police patrol killing a policemen and a bystander and wounding 12 others in Baghdad's northeast neighborhood of al-Shaab, a defense official said.
A medic at Imam Ali hospital in nearby Sadr City confirmed the attack and said the bodies of the two victims were received by the facility.
Eight of the wounded were also admitted to the hospital, including six policemen, he added.
Another policeman was killed in a separate clash with armed men in the same neighborhood.
In Zafaraniyah in southern Baghdad, three people were wounded by a roadside bomb aimed at a police patrol, a medic at Ibn Nafis hospital said.
The US military, meanwhile, said its forces had carried out a series of raids on Saturday in which five militants were killed.
In a raid southeast of Fallujah, the former rebel town in the western province of Anbar, US troops targeted a weapons distributor for the Al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
Four people were killed and seven wounded in a roadside bomb attack on a minibus in eastern Baghdad, police said.
Six civilian detainees were killed and at least 50 wounded when mortars or rockets were fired into the US-run Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq, the US military said.
A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded two others in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, police said. A mortar round which landed nearby killed one civilian and wounded four others.
Source : www.alalam.ir
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