MNA An official with Kurdestan provinces governorate said that after an armed conflict with some gunmen on Sunday evening in Baneh border region, one of the border guards has been martyred. The conflict happened around 9:30 PM, local time, after a group of armed individuals tried to illegally enter the Iranian soil, Mohammad Rezaei, director general ...

IRNA - Deputy chief of political, security and social affairs in Iran's western province of Kurdistan said one border guard has been killed following clashes between illegal border crossers and border forces in the city of Baneh. Hossein Khosh Eqbal said on Tuesday evening the clash broke out during efforts of some individuals along the border to ...

Tasnim A terrorist group launched an attack on Iranian border police troops on patrol near the western city of Baneh, injuring four, governor of the county told Tasnim. According to Governor of Baneh Mohammad Fallahi, the anti-Revolution terrorist groups attacked a border police patrol vehicle on Thursday night, injuring four security forces. The ...

MNA Gunmen killed an Iranian soldier in Baneh County, Kurdistan province on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan. Colonel Alireza Kurdlu, the Commander of Choman border regiment, told Iranian media on Wednesday that a border guard called Armin Fakhri was martyred by gun shots while he was on duty in a watchtower belonging to Iranian border ...

IRNA - An earthquake measuring 4.2 on Richter scale jolted Baneh in the western province of Kordestan at 12:37 hours local time (09: 07 GMT) on Sunday. According to the Seismological Center affiliated to the Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the epicenter of the quake was registered at 10 km of Armardeh City and at the depth of 9 kilometers ...

Tasnim The spokesman for the Iranian Police said the countrys border guards opened fire on porters, locally known as Kolbars, in the western border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, after they sneaked into a restricted area and ignored police warning shots. Two nights ago, Iranian border guards noticed a group of people with packages trying ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region No group has claimed responsibility so far for five soldiers from Irans Revolutionary Guards who were killed last week near the Kurdish city of Baneh. The attack took place between the Kurdish villages of Shiwe and Sawan, where unknown gunmen attacked the guards, killing five and wounding two others. The guards were of Kurdish ...

Rebels killed five members of Irans elite Revolutionary Guard in a clash Thursday in the Kurdish Baneh region in the northwest, media reports said. Five members of the Revolutionary Guard were killed in fighting with counter-revolutionaries in Baneh two others were wounded and taken to hospital, the Fars news agency said, citing sources in the elite ...