Turkey begins bombing Iraq's northern region

As US diplomats have been trying to restrain Turkey , a NATO ally since the early years of the Cold War, from taking its own military incursion into northern Iraq, Turkey has already " begun shelling areas across the Iraqi border in the autonomous Kurdish region ". Like the then underground Iraqi communists, Iraq' s ethnic Kurds generally supported and facilitated the initial stage of the US-led military operations in March 2003 to topple the Baathist regime.

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