Turkey hits Kurdish rebels deep inside Iraq

Turkey's military says its warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq. The military said on its website Monday that suspected rebel positions in the Mount Qandil area, where the main rebel base is located on the Iraqi-Iranian border, were bombed last week, along with positions in the Zap region across the Turkish border. It was the latest Turkish air campaign against the rebels in Iraq since the killing of eight Turkish soldiers along the border around mid-June. The military said it killed 31 rebels in ensuing clashes at the time. Kurdish rebels have used northern Iraq as a springboard for attacks on Turkish targets in their decades-long fight for autonomy in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast. The conflict has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people since 1984.