Iran's elite force kills 10 more insurgents

Iranian troops today killed 10 insurgents in ongoing clashes in the country’s north-west, near the border with Turkey, Iran’s official news agency reported.

The report by the Islamic Republic News Agency said the troops of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards killed the insurgents during an operation to remove “armed counterrevolutionary insurgents” in the Salmas region, a mostly Kurdish area some 440 miles north-west of Tehran, the capital.