U.S.-Iraqi raid in Baghdad nets 65 insurgents

  • 12/15/2022
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Baghdad, April 11, SPA -- Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi forces onMonday launched their biggest Baghdad raid in recent weeks,moving on foot through a central neighborhood and roundingup dozens of suspected insurgents, the military said. About 500 members of Iraq's police and army swept throughbuildings in the Rashid neighborhood along with a "couplehundred" American soldiers, detaining 65 suspectedmilitants, Lt. Col. Clifford Kent of the U.S. Army's 3rdInfantry Division said. One Iraqi soldier suffered injuries but no Americancasualties were reported in the largest joint raid inIraq's capital by U.S. and Iraqi forces since the FortStewart, Georgia-based 3rd Infantry Division assumedresponsibility for the city on Feb. 27, said Kent. One suspected insurgent was also being treated for wounds,the military said in a statement.--SPA1027 Local Time 0727 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/253657

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