Turkey attacks Kurdish Northern Iraq

"ISTANBUL — Turkish warplanes attacked 60 targets in the mountains and border areas of northern Iraq, ending the assault early Thursday, in pursuit of Kurdish separatist rebels who killed nine security officials and wounded 15 in an ambush a day earlier, army headquarters said. Prior to the successful air strikes, the Turkish artillery hit another 168 locations in the same region that military intelligence showed were frequented by the P.K.K., or Kurdistan Workers Party, which has been fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s southeast since early 1980s... The bombardment of the Qandil and Zap regions came only days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that patience was with the rebels was running out...."