Iran shells Kurdish rebels in Iraq: Iraqi Kurd official

Tehran "reserves the right" to attack the bases of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group across the Iraq border, the official IRNA news agency quoted an army official as saying on Monday. "We reserve the right to attack and destroy terrorist bases in border areas" near the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, the agency quoted the unnamed senior official as saying."The terrorists will not be allowed to take sanctuary in Iraq's territory and attack Iran with the support of America and the Zionist regime," the official said. "Action will be taken against these terrorists."

Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran's controversial nuclear programme, a top Iraqi minister told AFP.

Six Iranian pilgrims were among 14 people killed in a spate of bombings across Baghdad on Saturday morning, security officials said.Two near-simultaneous blasts, one at a derelict house laced with explosives and the other a car bomb, went off close to a rest house popular with Iranian religious tourists in Kadhimiyah.Five people, including four Iranians, were killed and 18 were wounded, 11 of them pilgrims, an interior ministry official said, revising his earlier statement that all of the dead and wounded were Iranian.

Eight Turkish soldiers were killed overnight in an attack on an army post by Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey, near the border with Iraq, the army said Saturday.The attack blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took place at a military post near the city of Semdinli close to the Iraqi border, and also left 14 soldiers wounded, the army said in an online statement.The military responded with helicopters and reportedly killed 12 rebels, the army statement added.

A car bomb near a mosque in the central Iraqi city of Baquba killed at least four people and wounded 10 others on Wednesday, security officials said.The explosion near the Husseiniyah mosque in the predominantly Shiite district of Abu Sayeeda in east Baquba, north of Baghdad, occurred at around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT), an official from Baquba Operations Command said.

Kurdish rebels killed 10 Turkish soldiers in an attack on an army post and a mine explosion near the border with Iraq, prompting retaliatory air raids on rebel outposts, the army said Saturday.The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack which killed eight soldiers at a military post near the city of Semdinli close to the Iraqi border, PKK spokesman Ahmed Denis told AFP in the Iraqi Kurdistan regional capital of Arbil.

Kurdish rebels killed 10 Turkish soldiers in an attack on an army post and a mine explosion near the border with Iraq, prompting retaliatory air raids on rebel outposts, the army said Saturday.The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack which killed eight soldiers at a military post near the city of Semdinli close to the Iraqi border, PKK spokesman Ahmed Denis told AFP in the Iraqi Kurdistan regional capital of Arbil.