ISN, 26 Feb 07: Kurdish Strike Reminder of Forgotten War
...The state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday that Iranian Revolutionary Guards units had engaged Kurdish militants in the country's West Azarbaijan province, as the insurgents apparently sought to flee to the safety of the Iraqi border 17 kilometers away.

According to IRNA, "The Revolutionary Guards besieged these elements and started neutralizing them. In this operation at least 17 mercenary anti-revolution elements were killed and some were injured."

Kurdish news agency Firat carried a report the same day that militants from the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK/PEJAK) were claiming to have shot down an Iranian military helicopter in the area with a shoulder-launched missile, killing eight soldiers and capturing one....