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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2011 – Afghan and coalition forces killed 11 insurgents, detained 15 suspected individuals and seized a weapons cache during operations across eastern Afghanistan yesterday, military officials reported. In Kunar province’s Nari district, three insurgents were killed after they were spotted before a rocket attack against a coalition base. Another three insurgents were killed by airstrikes after they attacked a coalition observation post in the Bar Kunar district. Three more insurgents were killed in the Khost district center of Khost province after they engaged Afghan forces with mortar rounds. Two other insurgents were killed during an airstrike in...

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2010 – Iraqi forces arrested 15 terrorism suspects in various security operations yesterday and today, military officials reported. A man who brandished a handgun at security forces in one of the operations was killed. -- In a rural area northeast of Baghdad yesterday, an Iraqi emergency response unit and U.S. advisors searched several buildings for a suspect believed to work closely with al-Qaida in Iraq leaders in Diyala province to supply weapons and explosives to fellow terrorist-group members. Police arrested a suspected criminal associate of the wanted man. -- In eastern Mosul yesterday, Iraqi soldiers and U.S....

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2009 – Iraqi police and U.S. advisors apprehended 15 suspects with alleged ties to al Qaida in Iraq during operations in there in the past few days, military officials said. Iraqi police arrested four suspected members of al Qaida cells today in two joint security operations near Baghdad and Kirkuk, military officials said. In a joint security operation in Karmah, west of Baghdad, police apprehended an alleged associate of a car-bomb cell believed responsible for attacks targeting government buildings and civilians in the Iraqi capital. Police also arrested a suspected accomplice. During a separate operation in a...