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Urgent: Turkish forces shelling IS in northern Iraq: Turkish PM

Xinhua, October 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

Turkish artillery in Bashiqa military camp are shelling the Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sunday.

The move in Mosul province came at the request of Peshmerga forces of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, he told reporters in the province of Afyonkarahisa