State media: Iranian forces clash with Kurdish separatists

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Last Updated : Jun 25 2016 | 6:28 PM IST
Iran's state-run news agency is reporting that security forces have clashed with Kurdish separatist militants who infiltrated a northwestern village to stage "terrorist and propagandist operations."
Today's report by IRNA quotes an unnamed official from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as saying the clashes happened Friday in the Mahabad County of West Azerbaijan province.
The report did not mention if there were casualties. The Kurdish group was not immediately reachable.
On June 16, Iran's Revolutionary Guard battled armed members of an insurgent Kurdish group in West Azerbaijan province.
Both sides gave conflicting death tolls from the fighting.
The Guard said it killed 12 insurgents while three of its members died and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan said Kurds killed over 12 Guard members, including a colonel.
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First Published: Jun 25 2016 | 6:28 PM IST

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