Iraqi armed forces will prevent Kurdish fighters based in northern Iraq from staging cross-border attacks against Turkey, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said, Al Jazeera reports.
Abadi said this to his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim in a phone call on Tuesday.
"Iraqi security forces have been instructed not to allow the presence of foreign fighters in the border region," Abadi's office quoted him as telling Yildirim in their conversation.