At least 20 people were killed, and another was wounded in recent violence:
Turkish strikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.) guerrillas killed eight guerrillas.
Six P.K.K. guerrillas were killed during a strike in the Gara region.
Another four P.K.K. members were killed in earlier operations.
One Turkish soldier was killed, and another was wounded during anti-P.K.K. operations in Duhok province.
The body of a Sadrist Movement activist was found on a highway, a day after his kidnapping in Babil Province.
Another Sadrist was kidnapped near Hilla.
Also, Iran and Iraq exchanged the remains of 45 people who had gone missing during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
