(KUNA) -- More than 260 Iraqi fighters, including foreigners, were killed or rounded up Wednesday in a large army operation in the governorate of Diali, north of the capital Baghdad, a police source said in a statement. "The Fifth Iraqi squad force, which continued to crack down on armed men in the district of Diali, succeeded in killing or arresting about 250 terrorists in the city of Baqouba, the largest in the governorate of Diali," the statement said. It added that the operation was called "fast reply." | “Local tribes killed 11 foreign fighters including nine Syrians, one Saudi and one Sudanese...” |
Meanwhile, Sheikh Abdel-Sattar Al-Rishawi, one of the tribal elders in Anbar, said the local tribes had succeeded in purging the coastal road linking Iraq to Syria. In a related development, an Iraqi died in clashes with a British military force. The incident took place in the middle of the city of Basra, in Iraq's southern part. No casualties were reported among the British side.