Turkish air strikes kill 19 Kurdish militants in north Iraq - military sources

DIYARBAKIR, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Turkish jets carried out air strikes against Kurdish militants in the Gara region of northern Iraq on Friday and killed 19 militants, Turkish military sources said on Saturday. Turkey, which has also sent troops into northern Iraq, is focused on preventing the Kurdish peshmerga there and the YPG in Syria from linking up and forming a contiguous proto-state along the Turkish border.
Turkish fighter jets kill 19 suspected Kurdish militants in strikes on the Gara region in northern Iraq.