Baghdad: Turkish fighter jets hit a Kurdish border area in northern Iraq on Saturday with the help of US intelligence, top officials said.

No casualties were reported after two-hour bombardment.

Jabbar Yawar, the deputy minister of Kurdish regional government forces, said the jets went into Iraqi Kurdish territory, where they caused unspecified damage.

Turkey's ambassador to the United States, Nabi Sensoy, had said Turkey's airstrikes this week were prompted by intelligence from the United States.

He said the operations were "tangible results" of enhanced cooperation between the two countries after a visit to Washington last month by the Turkish prime minister.