Middle East
Publisher:
Author: The Daily Star - Lebanon
3 Aug 2011
Iran shelling of Kurd separatist rebels displaces over 200 families
Over 200 Iraqi Kurdish families have been forced from their homes by weeks of Iranian shelling of rebel bases in northern Iraq, local officials and an NGO said Tuesday. The shelling has targeted camps of the separatist Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) since mid-July, and the two sides have engaged in on-off clashes along the Iraq-Iran border