SUZAN FRASER   08/18/11 10:28 AM ET  

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey‘s air force attacked 60 suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the military said Thursday, and it vowed to continue the assault until the guerrilla group is “rendered ineffective.”

The attacks, which also involved 168 rounds of artillery, occurred in the largely mountainous region near the Turkey-Iraq border and on Mount Qandil on the Iraqi-Iranian border, where the leaders of the rebel group Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, are believed to be hiding, the military said in a statement.

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