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24 killed (PJAK claim) |
April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids were three military cross-border attacks on Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan border, in which PJAK claimed to had killed 24 members of Iranian security forces in early April, 2006. [1] The raids were motivated as retaliation for the killing of 10 Kurds demonstrating in Maku by Iranian security forces. [1] On April 10, 2006, seven PJAK members were arrested in Iran, on a suspicion that they had killed three Iranian security force personnel.[ citation needed]
PJAK set off a bomb on 8 May 2006 in Kermanshah, wounding five people at a government building. [2]
Since, the US news channel MSNBC claimed that the Iranian military begun bombardments of Kurdish villages in US-occupied Iraq along the Iranian border while claiming that their primary targets were PJAK militants.[ citation needed] A number of civilians died. [3]
April 2006 Iran-Iraq cross-border raids | |||||||
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
24 killed (PJAK claim) |
April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids were three military cross-border attacks on Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan border, in which PJAK claimed to had killed 24 members of Iranian security forces in early April, 2006. [1] The raids were motivated as retaliation for the killing of 10 Kurds demonstrating in Maku by Iranian security forces. [1] On April 10, 2006, seven PJAK members were arrested in Iran, on a suspicion that they had killed three Iranian security force personnel.[ citation needed]
PJAK set off a bomb on 8 May 2006 in Kermanshah, wounding five people at a government building. [2]
Since, the US news channel MSNBC claimed that the Iranian military begun bombardments of Kurdish villages in US-occupied Iraq along the Iranian border while claiming that their primary targets were PJAK militants.[ citation needed] A number of civilians died. [3]