Turkey fired about 15 artillery shells toward Kurdish villages in the border area of northern Iraq today but caused no casualties, an Iraqi army officer said.

Turkey fired about 15 artillery shells toward Kurdish villages in the border area of northern Iraq today but caused no casualties, an Iraqi army officer said.

An Iraqi appeals court today upheld death sentences imposed against “Chemical Ali” al-Majid and two other Saddam Hussein lieutenants convicted of crimes against humanity for their roles a massacre of Kurds, a judge said.