Police arrest 5 wanted men in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Joint police and army forces on Monday arrested five wanted men in the southwest of Kirkuk, the local police chief said. “A joint force of police and army personnel, backed by U.S. troops, arrested on Monday (Mar. 16) five wanted men during a security operation in a number of villages in al-Rashad district in the southwest of Kirkuk,” Brig. Sarhad Qader told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The operation was based on a tip-off,” he noted. Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 1