Iranian forces kill 10 militants (near border of Turkey)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian troops Wednesday killed 10 militants in ongoing clashes in the country's northwest, near the border with Turkey, Iran's official news agency reported.

The report by the Islamic Republic News Agency said the troops of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards killed the insurgents during an operation to remove "armed counterrevolutionary insurgents" in the Salmas region, a mostly Kurdish area some 440 miles northwest of Tehran, the capital.

Earlier Wednesday, IRNA reported that seven Revolutionary Guard members and five militants had been killed in clashes in the same area on Monday night.

Those clashes occurred when militants ambushed a patrol of border guards. Several more Iranian troops were injured and one of the insurgents was detained, the report said but gave no other details.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_clashes

[Turbineguy]

1. Just a minute here

if everybody is gonna call those who are against them "militants" or "insurgents" this situation is bound to get hopelessly confused.