Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil traded near $84 a barrel in New York after rising to a record last week as tensions on the Turkey-Iraq border added to concerns about the adequacy of global supplies.
Turkey will find itself in a dragged-out, Vietnam-style conflict if it invades northern Iraq, a rebel commander said.
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil traded near $84 a barrel after rising to a record last week as tensions on the Turkey- Iraq border added to concerns about the adequacy of global supplies.
A House committee has voted to call on President Bush to declare that the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 90 years ago was genocide. Turkey and the Bush administration worked unsuccessfully to defeat the resolution, but the battle is not over.
Turkey's top general warns military ties with US will be irreversibly damaged if US Congress labels 'genocide'.
Tensions have been increasing along Turkey's border with Iraq with reports of cross-border shelling before an expected parliamentary vote on whether to permit a ground incursion against Kurdish fighters.
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According to a Reuters report , Turkey fired shells in to a village in northern Iraq Saturday and that no casualties or damage was reported.
Two senior U.S. officials promised Saturday that they would convey to Iraq Turkey's unease over Kurdish rebels in the north but they also expressed concern over the possibility of a Turkish military offensive in the region.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday she had urged Turkey to refrain from any major military operation in northern Iraq.