Turkish warplanes have again bombed alleged Kurdish guerrilla positions in northern Iraq.

US embassy in Iraq said commanders had not approved the attacks, but had been informed before they took place. Turkish military earlier said the US had given tacit approval by opening Iraqi airspace for the operation.

The Turkish army is to launch a cross-border operation against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq before 'weather conditions worsen,' local media quoted the Turkish president as saying on Wednesday.

The negotiations between President of the USA and the Turkish Prime-Minister finished in a rather predicted way: Bush practically gave carte blanche to the Turkish invasion of Northern Iraq, calling it antiterrorist operations. After the negotiations with George Bush, Recep Erdoghan announced that Turkey had decided to carry military operation and is not on the threshold of war.

US State Department said it was hunting for a diplomatic resolution to tensions on Turkey's border with Iraq, after a new report raised the possibility of US-Turkish strikes on Kurdish terrorists.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan says US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has asked his Government to hold off on launching cross-border raids on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.

Turkey shells Iraq border on frontier border in Kurdish region at rebels PKK camps for their freedom to ambush Turkish soldiers from last month.

The President of Iraq Jalal Talabani says he bcks a U.S. Senate resolution that calls for the decentralization of Iraq into autonomous regions for Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds.