Iran troops kill 9 Kurd rebels

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have killed nine Kurdish rebels, five of them women, in clashes in West Azarbaijan province near the border with Turkey, reports said on Saturday.  "Revolutionary Guards clashed with a 10-member team and nine were killed," local newspaper said, describing the rebels as "members of a military arm of the PJAK terrorist group."  The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) operates from rear-bases in northeastern Iraq and has been involved in a series of clashes with Iranian security forces in recent years. 

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