April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids

April 2006 Iran–Iraq cross-border raids were three military cross-border attacks on Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan border, in which PJAK claimed to had killed 24 members of Iranian security forces in early April, 2006.[1] The raids were motivated as retaliation for the killing of 10 Kurds demonstrating in Maku by Iranian security forces.[1] On April 10, 2006, seven PJAK members were arrested in Iran, on a suspicion that they had killed three Iranian security force personnel.

April 2006 Iran-Iraq cross-border raids
Part of Iran–PJAK conflict
Date3 April 2006
Location
Iraqi Kurdistan, north-western Iran
Result

Indecisive

  • Arrests of PJAK members
  • Shelling of PJAK positions in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • May 2006 Kermanshah bombing
Belligerents
Iran Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK)
Casualties and losses
24 killed (PJAK claim)

Aftermath

PJAK set off a bomb on 8 May 2006 in Kermanshah, wounding five people at a government building.[2]

Since, the US news channel MSNBC claimed that the Iranian military begun bombardments of Kurdish villages in US-occupied Iraq along the Iranian border while claiming that their primary targets were PJAK militants. A number of civilians died.[3]

See also

References
  1. Tehran faces growing Kurdish opposition, James Brandon, The Washington Times, April 3, 2006
  2. The militant Kurds of Iran - Jane's Security News Archived October 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Trouble on the Iran-Iraq Border - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com". Msnbc.msn.com. September 13, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
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