BAGHDAD, June 10 (KUNA) -- US warplanes on Friday bombed a number of locations suspected to be hideouts for insurgents in the town of Heit in the western Anbar Province.
Eyewitnesses said that severe clashes have been going around the town since Thursday night, noting that the US forces have cordoned off the town.
They added that the US warplanes fired missiles on some locations in the city that is suspected of hosting some gunmen, who infiltrated from the town of Qa'em on the Iraqi-Syrian borders.
So far, no reports were available on losses among civilians or gunmen, while the US forces did not comment on the operation.
Baghdad, 10 June (AKI) - Iraqi guards along the border with Saudi Arabia stopped 275 people from trying to enter the country illegally in the month of April, according to security sources quoted by Radio Sawa. The report on the US-funded radio said that only 25 of those apprehended were Saudi citizens and the majority were of other Arab nationalities. The border guards reported on Friday that they had broken up a drug smuggling gang in the area and seized a large quantity of drugs.