US forces killed three people they described as militants and detained more than two dozen in a series of raids across Iraq on Friday targeting al Qaeda networks. The military said troops killed the three militants, one of whom was wearing a suicide vest, in a raid near the former rebel town of Fallujah in the western Sunni Anbar province.
In the same raid troops detained 16 militants for their alleged ties to a "top al Qaeda in Iraq leader", while in the same province near the town of Karmah, another raid led to arrest of four more militants, the military said. In a third operation south of Baghdad, troops searched a building to arrest a close aide of a militant known for orchestrating vehicle bombings in the capital, capturing the suspect and two other militants.
A fourth raid resulted in the arrest of another aide of a leader of al Qaeda in the region of Tarmiyah, near Baghdad, the military said. And in Mosul, two more suspects were detained in a raid targeting a top leader of al Qaeda operating in the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
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