(KUNA) -- The US army said Sunday its troops and Iraqi ones arrested 50 terrorists in small towns within parameters of Salahuddin governorate that embraces also Saddam's home town Al-Ouja.
The US Army said in a statement released here today that the joint US-Iraqi forces detained through a wide-scale and three-day combing campaign that focused on terrorist cells in Abu Ajil, Yanout and Al-Ouja close to Tikrit. It added that 10 terrorists were killed after proving that they financed attacks against the coalition forces stationed in Abu Ajil. In another development a government statement said that the Iraqi army killed three terrorists and arrested two others at Bani Saad in the governorate of Diala, east of here. |